Getting Started with Berkeley DB Transaction Processing

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Table of Contents

Preface
Conventions Used in this Book
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1. Introduction
Transaction Benefits
A Note on System Failure
Application Requirements
Multi-threaded and Multi-process Applications
Recoverability
Performance Tuning
2. Enabling Transactions
Environments
File Naming
Error Support
Shared Memory Regions
Security Considerations
Opening a Transactional Environment and Database
3. Transaction Basics
Committing a Transaction
Non-Durable Transactions
Aborting a Transaction
Auto Commit
Nested Transactions
Transactional Cursors
Secondary Indices with Transaction Applications
Configuring the Transaction Subsystem
4. Concurrency
Which DB Handles are Free-Threaded
Locks, Blocks, and Deadlocks
Locks
Blocks
Deadlocks
The Locking Subsystem
Configuring the Locking Subsystem
Configuring Deadlock Detection
Resolving Deadlocks
Setting Transaction Priorities
Isolation
Supported Degrees of Isolation
Reading Uncommitted Data
Committed Reads
Using Snapshot Isolation
Transactional Cursors and Concurrent Applications
Using Cursors with Uncommitted Data
Exclusive Database Handles
Read/Modify/Write
No Wait on Blocks
Reverse BTree Splits
5. Managing DB Files
Checkpoints
Backup Procedures
About Unix Copy Utilities
Offline Backups
Hot Backup
Incremental Backups
Recovery Procedures
Normal Recovery
Catastrophic Recovery
Designing Your Application for Recovery
Recovery for Multi-Threaded Applications
Recovery in Multi-Process Applications
Using Hot Failovers
Removing Log Files
Configuring the Logging Subsystem
Setting the Log File Size
Configuring the Logging Region Size
Configuring In-Memory Logging
Setting the In-Memory Log Buffer Size
6. Summary and Examples
Anatomy of a Transactional Application
Transaction Example
In-Memory Transaction Example