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9/9/2013

Table of Contents

Preface
Conventions Used in this Book
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1. Introduction
Library version information
2. Upgrading from previous versions of Berkeley DB
3. Upgrading Berkeley DB 4.6 applications to Berkeley DB 4.7
Introduction
Run-time configuration
Replication API
Tcl API
DB_ENV->set_intermediate_dir
Log configuration
Upgrade Requirements
Berkeley DB 4.7.25 Change Log
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:
Direct Persistence Layer (DPL), Bindings and Collections API:
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:
Mutex Subsystem Changes:
Transaction Subsystem Changes:
Utility Changes:
Configuration, Documentation, Sample Application, Portability and Build Changes:
4. Upgrading Berkeley DB 4.5 applications to Berkeley DB 4.6
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:
5. Upgrading Berkeley DB 4.4 applications to Berkeley DB 4.5
Introduction
deprecated interfaces
DB->set_isalive
DB_ENV->rep_elect
Replication method naming
Replication events
Memory Pool API
DB_ENV->set_paniccall
DB->set_pagesize
Collections API
--enable-pthread_self
Recno backing text source files
Application-specific logging
Upgrade Requirements
Berkeley DB 4.5.20 Change Log
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:
6. Upgrading Berkeley DB 4.3 applications to Berkeley DB 4.4
Introduction
DB_AUTO_COMMIT
DB_DEGREE_2, DB_DIRTY_READ
DB_JOINENV
mutexes
DB_MPOOLFILE->set_clear_len
lock statistics
Upgrade Requirements
Berkeley DB 4.4.16 Change Log
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:
Berkeley DB 4.4.20 Change Log
Changes since Berkeley DB 4.4.16:
7. Upgrading Berkeley DB 4.2 applications to Berkeley DB 4.3
Introduction
Java
DB_ENV->set_errcall, DB->set_errcall
DBcursor->c_put
DB->stat
DB_ENV->set_verbose
Logging
DB_FILEOPEN
ENOMEM and DbMemoryException
Replication
Run-time configuration
Upgrade Requirements
Berkeley DB 4.3.29 Change Log
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:
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:
8. Upgrading Berkeley DB 4.1 applications to Berkeley DB 4.2
Introduction
Java
Queue access method
DB_CHKSUM_SHA1
DB_CLIENT
DB->del
DB->set_cache_priority
DB->verify
DB_LOCK_NOTGRANTED
Replication
Replication initialization
Database methods and replication clients
DB_ENV->rep_process_message()
Client replication environments
Tcl API
Upgrade Requirements
Berkeley DB 4.2.52 Change Log
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:
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:
9. Upgrading Berkeley DB 4.0 applications to Berkeley DB 4.1
Introduction
DB_EXCL
DB->associate, DB->open, DB->remove, DB->rename
DB_ENV->log_register
st_flushcommit
DB_CHECKPOINT, DB_CURLSN
DB_INCOMPLETE
DB_ENV->memp_sync
DB->stat.hash_nelem
Java exceptions
C++ exceptions
Application-specific logging and recovery
Upgrade Requirements
Berkeley DB 4.1.24 and 4.1.25 Change Log
Database or Log File On-Disk Format Changes:
Major New Features:
General Environment 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:
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:
Berkeley DB 4.1.25 Change Log
10. Upgrading Berkeley DB 3.3 applications to Berkeley DB 4.0
Introduction
db_deadlock
lock_XXX
log_XXX
memp_XXX
txn_XXX
db_env_set_XXX
DB_ENV->set_server
DB_ENV->set_lk_max
DB_ENV->lock_id_free
Java CLASSPATH environment variable
C++ ostream objects
application-specific recovery
Upgrade Requirements
4.0.14 Change Log
Major New Features:
General Environment Changes:
General Access Method Changes:
Btree Access Method Changes:
Hash Access Method Changes:
Queue Access Method Changes:
Recno Access Method Changes:
C++ API Changes:
Java API Changes:
Tcl API Changes:
RPC Client/Server Changes:
XA Resource Manager Changes:
Locking Subsystem Changes:
Logging Subsystem Changes:
Memory Pool Subsystem Changes:
Transaction Subsystem Changes:
Utility Changes:
Database or Log File On-Disk Format Changes:
Configuration, Documentation, Portability and Build Changes:
11. Upgrading Berkeley DB 3.2 applications to Berkeley DB 3.3
introduction
DB_ENV->set_server
DB->get_type
DB->get_byteswapped
DB->set_malloc, DB->set_realloc
DB_LOCK_CONFLICT
memp_fget, EIO
txn_prepare
--enable-dynamic, --enable-shared
--disable-bigfile
Upgrade Requirements
12. Upgrading Berkeley DB 3.1 applications to Berkeley DB 3.2
introduction
DB_ENV->set_flags
DB callback functions, app_private field
Logically renumbering records
DB_INCOMPLETE
DB_ENV->set_tx_recover
DB_ENV->set_mutexlocks
Java and C++ object reuse
Java java.io.FileNotFoundException
db_dump
Upgrade Requirements
13. Upgrading Berkeley DB 3.0 applications to Berkeley DB 3.1
introduction
DB_ENV->open, DB_ENV->remove
DB_ENV->set_tx_recover
DB_ENV->set_feedback, DB->set_feedback
DB_ENV->set_paniccall, DB->set_paniccall
DB->put
identical duplicate data items
DB->stat
DB_SYSTEM_MEM
log_register
memp_register
txn_checkpoint
environment configuration
Tcl API
DB_TMP_DIR
log file pre-allocation
Upgrade Requirements
14. Upgrading Berkeley DB 2.X applications to Berkeley DB 3.0
introduction
environment open/close/unlink
function arguments
DB_ENV structure
database open/close
db_xa_open
DB structure
DBINFO structure
DB->join
DB->stat
DB->sync and DB->close
lock_put
lock_detect
lock_stat
log_register
log_stat
memp_stat
txn_begin
txn_commit
txn_stat
DB_RMW
DB_LOCK_NOTHELD
EAGAIN
EACCES
db_jump_set
db_value_set
DbEnv class for C++ and Java
Db class for C++ and Java
additional C++ changes
additional Java changes
Upgrade Requirements
15. Upgrading Berkeley DB 1.85 or 1.86 applications to Berkeley DB 2.0
Introduction
System Integration
Converting Applications
Upgrade Requirements
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