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.