Chapter 4. Upgrading Berkeley DB 4.5 applications to Berkeley DB 4.6

Table of Contents

Introduction

C API cursor handle method names

DB_MPOOLFILE->put

B_MPOOLFILE->set

Replication Events

DB_REP_FULL_ELECTION

Verbose Output

DB_VERB_REPLICATION

Windows 9X

Upgrade Requirements

Berkeley DB 4.6.21 Change Log

4.6.21 Patches:

4.6.19 Patches

Database or Log File On-Disk Format Changes:

New Features:

Database Environment Changes:

Concurrent Data Store Changes:

General Access Method Changes:

Btree Access Method Changes:

Hash Access Method Changes:

Queue Access Method Changes:

Recno Access Method Changes:

C++-specific API Changes:

Java-specific API Changes:

Java collections and bind API Changes:

Tcl-specific API Changes:

RPC-specific Client/Server Changes:

Replication Changes:

XA Resource Manager Changes:

Locking Subsystem Changes:

Logging Subsystem Changes:

Memory Pool Subsystem Changes:

Transaction Subsystem Changes:

Utility Changes:

Configuration, Documentation, Portability and Build Changes:

Introduction

The following pages describe how to upgrade applications coded against the Berkeley DB 4.5 release interfaces to the Berkeley DB 4.6 release interfaces. This information does not describe how to upgrade Berkeley DB 1.85 release applications.