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Oracle Berkeley DB

Installation and Build

Guide

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Library Version 12.1.6.1

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Table of Contents
Preface ..................................................................................................... xii
Conventions Used in this Book ................................................................... xii
For More Information .............................................................................. xii
Contact Us .................................................................................... xii
1. Introduction .............................................................................................. 1
Installation Overview ................................................................................ 1
Supported Platforms ................................................................................ 1
2. System Installation Notes ............................................................................ 3
File utility /etc/magic information ............................................................... 3
Magic information ............................................................................. 3
Big-endian magic information ............................................................... 4
Little-endian magic information ............................................................ 7
Building with multiple versions of Berkeley DB ................................................ 9
3. Debugging Applications .............................................................................. 11
Introduction to debugging ........................................................................ 11
Compile-time configuration ...................................................................... 11
Run-time error information ....................................................................... 12
Reviewing Berkeley DB log files ................................................................. 12
Augmenting the Log for Debugging ....................................................... 16
Extracting Committed Transactions and Transaction Status ........................... 16
Extracting Transaction Histories ........................................................... 16
Extracting File Histories .................................................................... 16
Extracting Page Histories ................................................................... 16
Other log processing tools ................................................................. 17
4. Building Berkeley DB for Android ................................................................... 18
Building the Drop-In Replacement for Android ................................................ 18
Migrating from SQLite to Berkeley DB ................................................... 19
Building the Android JDBC Driver ............................................................... 20
Android Configuration Options ................................................................... 25
Using the JDBC Driver in ADF Mobile for Android ............................................. 26
5. Building Berkeley DB for Windows ................................................................ 29
Building Berkeley DB for 32 bit Windows ...................................................... 29
Visual C++ .NET 2012 ........................................................................ 29
Visual C++ .NET 2010 ........................................................................ 29
Visual C++ .NET 2008 ........................................................................ 30
Visual C++ .NET 2005 ........................................................................ 30
Build results .................................................................................. 30
Building Berkeley DB for 64-bit Windows ...................................................... 31
x64 build with Visual Studio 2005 or newer ............................................. 31
Building Berkeley DB with Cygwin ............................................................... 31
Building the C++ API ............................................................................... 31
Building the C++ STL API ......................................................................... 31
Building the Java API .............................................................................. 32
Building the C# API ................................................................................ 33
Building the SQL API ............................................................................... 33
Binary Compatibility With SQLite ......................................................... 33

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Setting Encryption ........................................................................... 34

Changing Compile Options ................................................................. 34
Enabling Extensions ......................................................................... 35
Disabling Log Checksums ................................................................... 35
Building the JDBC Driver ................................................................... 36
Using the JDBC Driver ...................................................................... 37
Downloading JDBC Sample Code .................................................... 37
Modifying Sample Code .............................................................. 37
Building and Running the JDBC Sample code ..................................... 37
Using the JDBC Driver in ADF/JDeveloper ............................................... 38
Building the ODBC Driver ................................................................... 39
Configuring Your System ............................................................. 39
Building the Library ................................................................... 39
Installing the Library ................................................................. 40
Testing the ODBC Install ............................................................. 40
Using the ADO.NET Driver ................................................................ 40
Building the Tcl API ................................................................................ 40
Distributing DLLs ................................................................................... 41
Additional build options ........................................................................... 42
Building a small memory footprint library ..................................................... 43
Running the test suite under Windows ......................................................... 43
Building the software needed by the tests .............................................. 43
Visual Studio 2005 or newer ........................................................ 44
Running the test suite under Windows ................................................... 44
Building the software needed by the SQL tests ........................................ 44
Visual Studio 2005 or newer ........................................................ 45
Windows notes ...................................................................................... 45
Windows FAQ ........................................................................................ 46
6. Building Berkeley DB for Windows Mobile ........................................................ 48
Building for Windows Mobile ..................................................................... 48
Building Berkeley DB for Windows Mobile ............................................... 48
Visual Studio 2005 .................................................................... 48
Build results ............................................................................ 48
Changing Build Configuration Type ....................................................... 48
Building Berkeley DB for different target platforms ................................... 49
Visual Studio 2005 .................................................................... 49
BDB SQL Notes ......................................................................... 50
Windows Mobile notes ............................................................................. 50
Windows Mobile FAQ ............................................................................... 50
Building for Windows Embedded Compact 7 ................................................... 53
Building Berkeley DB for Windows Embedded Compact 7 ............................. 53
Visual Studio 2008 .................................................................... 53
Build results ............................................................................ 53
Changing Build Configuration Type ....................................................... 53
Troubleshooting Common Build Errors .................................................... 54
7. Building Berkeley DB for UNIX/POSIX ............................................................. 55
Building for UNIX/POSIX ........................................................................... 55
Building the Berkeley DB SQL Interface .................................................. 55
Configuring Berkeley DB .......................................................................... 56

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Configuring the SQL Interface ...................................................................

Changing Compile Options .................................................................
Enabling Extensions .........................................................................
Building the JDBC Driver ...................................................................
Using the JDBC Driver ......................................................................
Downloading JDBC Sample Code ....................................................
Modifying Sample Code ..............................................................
Building and Running the JDBC Sample code .....................................
Building the ODBC Driver ...................................................................
Configuring Your System .............................................................
Building the Library ...................................................................
Testing the ODBC Driver .............................................................
Building the BFILE extension ..............................................................
Building a small memory footprint library .....................................................
Changing compile or load options ...............................................................
Cross-Compiling on Unix ..........................................................................
Installing Berkeley DB .............................................................................
Dynamic shared libraries ..........................................................................
Running the test suite under UNIX ..............................................................
Building SQL Test Suite on Unix ...........................................................
Architecture independent FAQ ...................................................................
AIX ....................................................................................................
FreeBSD ..............................................................................................
Apple iOS (iPhone OS) .............................................................................
IRIX ...................................................................................................
Linux ..................................................................................................
Mac OS X ............................................................................................
QNX ...................................................................................................
SCO ...................................................................................................
Solaris ................................................................................................
SunOS .................................................................................................
8. Building Berkeley DB for VxWorks .................................................................
Building for VxWorks 6.x ..........................................................................
Building With Wind River Workbench using the Makefile ..............................
VxWorks notes ......................................................................................
Building and Running the Demo Program ................................................
Building and Running the Utility Programs ..............................................
Support for Replication Manager ..........................................................
VxWorks FAQ ........................................................................................
9. Upgrading Berkeley DB 12.1.6.0 applications to Berkeley DB 12.1.6.1 ......................
Introduction .........................................................................................
Failchk Broadcast Notifications ..................................................................
New Parameter Value .......................................................................
New Events ...................................................................................
New Logging Option ...............................................................................
New Parameter Value .......................................................................
Replication Manager Preferred Master Mode ...................................................
New Parameter Values ......................................................................
Replication Manager Incoming Queue Size Limit ..............................................

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The following typographical conventions are used within in this manual:
Variable or non-literal text is presented in italics. For example: "Go to your DB_INSTALL
directory."
Program examples are displayed in a monospaced font on a shaded background. For example:

Note
Finally, notes of interest are represented using a note block such as this.

For More Information

Beyond this manual, you may also find the following sources of information useful when
building a DB application:
Getting Started with Transaction Processing for C
Berkeley DB Getting Started with Replicated Applications for C
Berkeley DB C API Reference Guide
Berkeley DB C++ API Reference Guide
Berkeley DB STL API Reference Guide
Berkeley DB TCL API Reference Guide
Berkeley DB Programmer's Reference Guide
Berkeley DB Upgrade Guide
Berkeley DB Getting Started with the SQL APIs
To download the latest documentation along with white papers and other collateral, visit
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/index.html.
For the latest version of the Oracle downloads, visit http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/
database/database-technologies/berkeleydb/downloads/index.html.

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For sales or support information, email to: [email protected] You can subscribe
to a low-volume email announcement list for the Berkeley DB product family by sending email
to: [email protected]

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Chapter 1. Introduction
Welcome to the Berkeley DB. This manual describes how to configure, build and install
Berkeley DB. Installation of DB for all of the platforms it officially supports is described in
this manual. Upgrade instructions and release notes for newer versions of this product are
described here. For infomation on upgrading from historical versions, see the Berkeley DB
Upgrade Guide.
Note that some operating systems and distributions might provide DB, either by default or
as part of an installation option. If so, those platforms will have installation instructions for
DB specific to them. In this situation, you should see the documentation for your operating
system or distribution provider for information on how to get DB on your platform.

Installation Overview
Berkeley DB is an open-source product, and as such it is usually offered in source-code format.
This means that placing DB on your platform requires you to configure the build scripts,
compile it, and then install the product onto your host system. The exception to this are
Microsoft Windows platforms for which a binary installer is available. Note that for Windows
platforms, you can still compile the product from source if you desire.
For *nix systems, including the BSD and Linux systems, the usual configure, make and make
install installation process is used to place DB on your platform.
For information on building and installing Berkeley DB on:
Microsoft Windows, see Building Berkeley DB for Windows (page 29) or Building Berkeley
DB for Windows Mobile (page 48).
Unix/POSIX including Linux, BSD, Apple iOS (known as iPhone OS previously), and Mac OS
X see Building Berkeley DB for UNIX/POSIX (page 55).
VxWorks, see Building Berkeley DB for VxWorks (page 87).

Supported Platforms
You can install Berkeley DB on the following platforms:
Most versions of Linux (x86-64 and x86) including:
Oracle Linux 4, 5, and 6
Red Hat
Ubuntu
Wind River
MontaVista Embedded Linux version 6.0
Oracle Solaris versions 9 and 10 on x86_64, x86, and SPARC.

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FreeBSD
Microsoft Windows (x86-64 and x86).
XP (SP2, SP3)
Vista
Windows 7
Server 2008
Windows Mobile (6.x)
Apple Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6.
IBM AIX version 5 and 6.
VxWorks 6.x
QNX Neutrino/POSIX version 6
Android
Apple iOS (previously known as iPhone OS)
Apart from those mentioned in the list above, you can install Berkeley DB on most other
systems which are POSIX-compliant. When there is a need to run Berkeley DB on a platform
that is currently not supported, DB is distributed in source code form that you can use as
base source to port Berkeley DB to that platform. For more information on porting to other
platforms, see the Berkeley DB Porting Guide.

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File utility /etc/magic information
The file(1) utility is a UNIX utility that examines and classifies files, based on information
found in its database of file types, the /etc/magic file. The following information may be
added to your system's /etc/magic file to enable file(1) to correctly identify Berkeley DB
database files.
The file(1) utility magic(5) information for the standard System V UNIX implementation
of the file(1) utility is included in the Berkeley DB distribution for both big-endian (for
example, Sparc) and little-endian (for example, x86) architectures. See Big-endian magic
information (page 4) and Little-endian magic information (page 7) respectively for this
information.
The file(1) utility magic(5) information for Release 3.X of Ian Darwin's implementation of the
file utility (as distributed by FreeBSD and most Linux distributions) is included in the Berkeley
DB distribution. This magic.txt information is correct for both big-endian and little-endian
architectures. See the next section for this information.

Magic information
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#

Berkeley DB
Ian Darwin's file /etc/magic files: big/little-endian version.
Hash 1.85/1.86 databases store metadata in network byte order.
Btree 1.85/1.86 databases store the metadata in host byte order.
Hash and Btree 2.X and later databases store the metadata in
host byte order.

0 long 0x00061561 Berkeley DB

>8 belong 4321
>>4 belong >2 1.86
>>4 belong <3 1.85
>>4 belong >0 (Hash, version %d, native byte-order)
>8 belong 1234
>>4 belong >2 1.86
>>4 belong <3 1.85
>>4 belong >0 (Hash, version %d, little-endian)
0 belong 0x00061561 Berkeley DB
>8 belong 4321
>>4 belong >2 1.86
>>4 belong <3 1.85
>>4 belong >0 (Hash, version %d, big-endian)
>8 belong 1234
>>4 belong >2 1.86
>>4 belong <3 1.85
>>4 belong >0 (Hash, version %d, native byte-order)

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0 long 0x00053162 Berkeley DB 1.85/1.86

>4 long >0 (Btree, version %d, native byte-order)
0 belong 0x00053162 Berkeley DB 1.85/1.86
>4 belong >0 (Btree, version %d, big-endian)
0 lelong 0x00053162 Berkeley DB 1.85/1.86
>4 lelong >0 (Btree, version %d, little-endian)
12 long 0x00061561 Berkeley DB
>16 long >0 (Hash, version %d, native byte-order)
12 belong 0x00061561 Berkeley DB
>16 belong >0 (Hash, version %d, big-endian)
12 lelong 0x00061561 Berkeley DB
>16 lelong >0 (Hash, version %d, little-endian)
12 long 0x00053162 Berkeley DB
>16 long >0 (Btree, version %d, native byte-order)
12 belong 0x00053162 Berkeley DB
>16 belong >0 (Btree, version %d, big-endian)
12 lelong 0x00053162 Berkeley DB
>16 lelong >0 (Btree, version %d, little-endian)
12 long 0x00042253 Berkeley DB
>16 long >0 (Queue, version %d, native byte-order)
12 belong 0x00042253 Berkeley DB
>16 belong >0 (Queue, version %d, big-endian)
12 lelong 0x00042253 Berkeley DB
>16 lelong >0 (Queue, version %d, little-endian)
12 long 0x00040988 Berkeley DB
>16 long >0 (Log, version %d, native byte-order)
12 belong 0x00040988 Berkeley DB
>16 belong >0 (Log, version %d, big-endian)
12 lelong 0x00040988 Berkeley DB
>16 lelong >0
(Log, version %d, little-endian)

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>16
>16
>16
>16
>16
>16
>16
>16
>16
>16
>16
>16
>12

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long
long
long
long
long
long
long
long
long
long
long
long

0x04000000
0x05000000
0x06000000
0x07000000
0x08000000
0x09000000
0x0a000000
0x0b000000
0x0c000000
0x0d000000
0x0e000000
0x0f000000
0x88090400

version 4,
version 5,
version 6,
version 7,
version 8,
version 9,
version 10,
version 11,
version 12,
version 13,
version 14,
version 15,
little-endian)

Little-endian magic information

#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#

Berkeley DB
System V /etc/magic files: little-endian version.
Hash 1.85/1.86 databases store metadata in network byte order.
Btree 1.85/1.86 databases store the metadata in host byte order.
Hash and Btree 2.X and later databases store the metadata in
host byte order.

0 long 0x00053162 Berkeley DB 1.85/1.86 (Btree,

>4 long 0x00000002 version 2,
>4 long 0x00000003 version 3,
>0 long 0x00053162 native byte-order)
0 long 0x62310500 Berkeley DB 1.85/1.86 (Btree,
>4 long 0x02000000 version 2,
>4 long 0x03000000 version 3,
>0 long 0x62310500 big-endian)
12 long 0x00053162 Berkeley DB (Btree,
>16 long 0x00000004 version 4,
>16 long 0x00000005 version 5,
>16 long 0x00000006 version 6,
>16 long 0x00000007 version 7,
>16 long 0x00000008 version 8,
>16 long 0x00000009 version 9,
>12 long 0x00053162 native byte-order)
12 long 0x62310500 Berkeley
>16 long 0x04000000 version
>16 long 0x05000000 version
>16 long 0x06000000 version
>16 long 0x07000000 version
>16 long 0x08000000 version

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>16 long 0x09000000 version 9,

>12 long 0x62310500 big-endian)
0 long 0x61150600 Berkeley DB
>4 long >0x02000000 1.86
>4 long <0x03000000 1.85
>0 long 0x00061561 (Hash,
>4 long 0x02000000 version 2,
>4 long 0x03000000 version 3,
>8 long 0xD2040000 native byte-order)
>8 long 0xE1100000 big-endian)
12 long 0x00061561 Berkeley DB (Hash,
>16 long 0x00000004 version 4,
>16 long 0x00000005 version 5,
>16 long 0x00000006 version 6,
>16 long 0x00000007 version 7,
>16 long 0x00000008 version 8,
>16 long 0x00000009 version 9,
>12 long 0x00061561 native byte-order)
12 long 0x61150600 Berkeley DB (Hash,
>16 long 0x04000000 version 4,
>16 long 0x05000000 version 5,
>16 long 0x06000000 version 6,
>16 long 0x07000000 version 7,
>16 long 0x08000000 version 8,
>16 long 0x09000000 version 9,
>12 long 0x61150600 big-endian)
12 long 0x00042253 Berkeley DB (Queue,
>16 long 0x00000001 version 1,
>16 long 0x00000002 version 2,
>16 long 0x00000003 version 3,
>16 long 0x00000004 version 4,
>16 long 0x00000005 version 5,
>16 long 0x00000006 version 6,
>16 long 0x00000007 version 7,
>16 long 0x00000008 version 8,
>16 long 0x00000009 version 9,
>12 long 0x00042253 native byte-order)
12 long 0x53220400 Berkeley
>16 long 0x01000000 version
>16 long 0x02000000 version
>16 long 0x03000000 version
>16 long 0x04000000 version
>16 long 0x05000000 version
>16 long 0x06000000 version

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>16
>16
>16
>12

long
long
long
long

0x07000000
0x08000000
0x09000000
0x53220400

version 7,
version 8,
version 9,
big-endian)

12 long 0x00040988 Berkeley DB (Log,

>16 long 0x00000001 version 1,
>16 long 0x00000002 version 2,
>16 long 0x00000003 version 3,
>16 long 0x00000004 version 4,
>16 long 0x00000005 version 5,
>16 long 0x00000006 version 6,
>16 long 0x00000007 version 7,
>16 long 0x00000008 version 8,
>16 long 0x00000009 version 9,
>16 long 0x0000000a version 10,
>16 long 0x0000000b version 11,
>16 long 0x0000000c version 12,
>16 long 0x0000000d version 13,
>16 long 0x0000000e version 14,
>16 long 0x0000000f version 15,
>12 long 0x00040988 native byte-order)
12 long 0x88090400 Berkeley DB (Log,
>16 long 0x01000000 version 1,
>16 long 0x02000000 version 2,
>16 long 0x03000000 version 3,
>16 long 0x04000000 version 4,
>16 long 0x05000000 version 5,
>16 long 0x06000000 version 6,
>16 long 0x07000000 version 7,
>16 long 0x08000000 version 8,
>16 long 0x09000000 version 9,
>16 long 0x0a000000 version 10,
>16 long 0x0b000000 version 11,
>16 long 0x0c000000 version 12,
>16 long 0x0d000000 version 13,
>16 long 0x0e000000 version 14,
>16 long 0x0f000000 version 15,
>12 long 0x88090400 big-endian)

Building with multiple versions of Berkeley DB

--enable-diagnostic
If you want to build Berkeley DB with debugging run-time sanity checks and with
DIAGNOSTIC #defined during compilation, enter --enable-diagnostic as an argument to
configure. This will cause a number of special checks to be performed when Berkeley
DB is running. This flag should not be defined when configuring to build production
binaries because it degrades performance.
--enable-umrw
When compiling Berkeley DB for use in run-time memory consistency checkers (in
particular, programs that look for reads and writes of uninitialized memory), use -enable-umrw as an argument to configure. This guarantees, among other things, that
Berkeley DB will completely initialize allocated pages rather than initializing only the
minimum necessary amount.

Run-time error information

Normally, when an error occurs in the Berkeley DB library, an integer value (either a Berkeley
DB specific value or a system errno value) is returned by Berkeley DB. In some cases,
however, this value may be insufficient to completely describe the cause of the error,
especially during initial application debugging.
Most Berkeley DB errors will result in additional information being written to a standard file
descriptor or output stream. Additionally, Berkeley DB can be configured to pass these verbose
error messages to an application function. There are four methods intended to provide
applications with additional error information: DB_ENV->set_errcall(), DB_ENV->set_errfile(),
DB_ENV->set_errpfx() and DB_ENV->set_verbose().
The Berkeley DB error-reporting facilities do not slow performance or significantly increase
application size, and may be run during normal operation as well as during debugging. Where
possible, we recommend these options always be configured and the output saved in the
filesystem. We have found that this often saves time when debugging installation or other
system-integration problems.
In addition, there are three methods to assist applications in displaying their own error
messages: db_strerror(), DB_ENV->err(), and DB_ENV->errx(). The first is a superset of
the ANSI C strerror function, and returns a descriptive string for any error return from the
Berkeley DB library. The DB_ENV->err() and DB_ENV->errx() methods use the error message
configuration options described previously to format and display error messages to appropriate
output devices.

Reviewing Berkeley DB log files

If you are running with transactions and logging, the db_printlog utility can be a useful
debugging aid. The db_printlog utility will display the contents of your log files in a human
readable (and machine-readable) format.
The db_printlog utility will attempt to display any and all log files present in a designated
db_home directory. For each log record, the db_printlog utility will display a line of the form:
[22][28]db_big: rec: 43 txnid 80000963 prevlsn [21][10483281]

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The opening numbers in square brackets are the log sequence number (LSN) of the log record
being displayed. The first number indicates the log file in which the record appears, and the
second number indicates the offset in that file of the record.
The first character string identifies the particular log operation being reported. The log
records corresponding to particular operations are described following. The rest of the line
consists of name/value pairs.
The rec field indicates the record type (this is used to dispatch records in the log to
appropriate recovery functions).
The txnid field identifies the transaction for which this record was written. A txnid of 0 means
that the record was written outside the context of any transaction. You will see these most
frequently for checkpoints.
Finally, the prevlsn contains the LSN of the last record for this transaction. By following
prevlsn fields, you can accumulate all the updates for a particular transaction. During
normal abort processing, this field is used to quickly access all the records for a particular
transaction.
After the initial line identifying the record type, each field of the log record is displayed, one
item per line. There are several fields that appear in many different records and a few fields
that appear only in some records.
The following table presents each currently written log record type with a brief description of
the operation it describes. Any of these record types may have the string "_debug" appended
if they were written because DB_TXN_NOT_DURABLE was specified and the system was
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bam_adj

Used when we insert/remove an index into/

from the page header of a Btree page.

bam_cadjust

Keeps track of record counts in a Btree or

Recno database.

bam_cdel

Used to mark a record on a page as deleted.

bam_curadj

Used to adjust a cursor location when a

nearby record changes in a Btree database.

bam_merge

Used to merge two Btree database pages

during compaction.

bam_pgno

Used to replace a page number in a Btree

record.

bam_rcuradj

Used to adjust a cursor location when a

nearby record changes in a Recno database.

bam_relink

Fix leaf page prev/next chain when a page is

removed.

bam_repl

Describes a replace operation on a record.

bam_root

Describes an assignment of a root page.

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Description

bam_rsplit

Describes a reverse page split.

bam_split

pages contain items too large to place on the
main page)

db_cksum

Unable to checksum a page.

db_debug

Log debugging message.

db_noop

This marks an operation that did nothing but

update the LSN on a page.

db_ovref

Increment or decrement the reference count

for a big item.

db_pg_alloc

Indicates we allocated a page to a database.

db_pg_free

Indicates we freed a page (freed pages are

added to a freelist and reused).

db_pg_freedata

Indicates we freed a page that still contained

data entries (freed pages are added to a
freelist and reused.)

db_pg_init

Indicates we reinitialized a page during a

truncate.

db_pg_sort

Sort the free page list and free pages at the

end of the file.

dbreg_register

Records an open of a file (mapping the

filename to a log-id that is used in subsequent
log operations).

fop_create

Create a file in the file system.

fop_file_remove

Remove a name in the file system.

fop_remove

Remove a file in the file system.

fop_rename

Rename a file in the file system.

fop_write

Write bytes to an object in the file system.

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Description

ham_chgpg

Used to adjust a cursor location when a Hash

page is removed, and its elements are moved
to a different Hash page.

ham_copypage

Used when we empty a bucket page, but

there are overflow pages for the bucket;
one needs to be copied back into the actual
bucket.

ham_curadj

Used to adjust a cursor location when a

nearby record changes in a Hash database.

ham_groupalloc

Allocate some number of contiguous pages to

the Hash database.

ham_insdel

Insert/delete an item on a Hash page.

ham_metagroup

Update the metadata page to reflect the

allocation of a sequence of contiguous pages.

ham_newpage

Adds or removes overflow pages from a Hash

bucket.

ham_replace

Handle updates to records that are on the

main page.

ham_splitdata

Record the page data for a split.

heap_addrem

Add or remove an entry from a Heap

database.

heap_pg_alloc

Indicates we allocated a page to a Heap

database.

heap_trunc_meta

Records the truncation of the meta page in a

Heap database.

heap_trunc_page

Records the truncation of a data page in a

Heap database.

qam_add

Describes the actual addition of a new record

to a Queue.

qam_del

Delete a record in a Queue.

qam_delext

Delete a record in a Queue with extents.

qam_incfirst

Increments the record number that refers to

the first record in the database.

qam_mvptr

Indicates we changed the reference to either

or both of the first and current records in the
file.

txn_child

Commit a child transaction.

txn_ckp

Transaction checkpoint.

txn_recycle

Transaction IDs wrapped.

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Log Record Type

Description

txn_regop

Logs a regular (non-child) transaction commit.

txn_xa_regop

Logs a prepare message.

Augmenting the Log for Debugging

When debugging applications, it is sometimes useful to log not only the actual operations
that modify pages, but also the underlying Berkeley DB functions being executed. This form
of logging can add significant bulk to your log, but can permit debugging application errors
that are almost impossible to find any other way. To turn on these log messages, specify the -enable-debug_rop and --enable-debug_wop configuration options when configuring Berkeley
DB. See Configuring Berkeley DB (page 56) for more information.

Extracting Committed Transactions and Transaction Status

Sometimes, it is helpful to use the human-readable log output to determine which
transactions committed and aborted. The awk script, commit.awk, (found in the db_printlog
directory of the Berkeley DB distribution) allows you to do just that. The following command,
where log_output is the output of db_printlog, will display a list of the transaction IDs of all
committed transactions found in the log:
awk -f commit.awk log_output
If you need a complete list of both committed and aborted transactions, then the script
status.awk will produce it. The syntax is as follows:
awk -f status.awk log_output

Extracting Transaction Histories

Another useful debugging aid is to print out the complete history of a transaction. The awk
script txn.awk allows you to do that. The following command line, where log_output is the
output of the db_printlog utility and txnlist is a comma-separated list of transaction IDs, will
display all log records associated with the designated transaction ids:
awk -f txn.awk TXN=txnlist log_output

Extracting File Histories

The awk script fileid.awk allows you to extract all log records that refer to a designated
file. The syntax for the fileid.awk script is the following, where log_output is the output of
db_printlog and fids is a comma-separated list of fileids:
awk -f fileid.awk PGNO=fids log_output

Extracting Page Histories

The awk script pgno.awk allows you to extract all log records that refer to designated page
numbers. However, because this script will extract records with the designated page numbers
for all files, it is most useful in conjunction with the fileid script. The syntax for the pgno.awk
script is the following, where log_output is the output of db_printlog and pgnolist is a commaseparated list of page numbers:

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awk -f pgno.awk PGNO=pgnolist log_output

Other log processing tools

The awk script count.awk prints out the number of log records encountered that belonged to
some transaction (that is, the number of log records excluding those for checkpoints and nontransaction-protected operations).
The script range.awk will extract a subset of a log. This is useful when the output of
db_printlog utility is too large to be reasonably manipulated with an editor or other tool. The
syntax for range.awk is the following, where sf and so represent the LSN of the beginning of
the sublog you want to extract, and ef and eo represent the LSN of the end of the sublog you
want to extract:
awk -f range.awk START_FILE=sf START_OFFSET=so END_FILE=ef \
END_OFFSET=eo log_output

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Chapter 4. Building Berkeley DB for Android

Berkeley DB provides support for the Android platform enabling you to develop and deploy
a wide range of mobile applications and services. Android provides SQLite as the default
database for developing applications that need database support. Berkeley DB SQL API is fully
compatible with SQLite and can be used as a replacement. The build_android directory
in the Berkeley DB distribution contains a makefile, Android.mk, for building a drop-in
replacement for SQLite.
Oracle offers two different solutions for building the BDB SQL API for Android. The first
creates a library that can be used as a drop-in replacement for SQLite on Android. The second
creates a JDBC driver for Android.

Building the Drop-In Replacement for Android

This section describes how to build a library that can be used as a drop-in replacement for
SQLite on Android.

Note
A drop in replacement refers to replacing all instances of SQLite in an Android OS
build with Berkeley DB SQL. All databases will be created in the Berkeley DB SQL
format including any created with the Java SQLite.* API. This solution requires that
users re-compile a custom Android OS image (it is only relevant for platform/device
vendors).
1.

Download and compile the Android source tree.

The compiling process takes time but is a one time activity. For information on
downloading and compiling the Android source code, see http://source.android.com/
source/download.html.

Copy the Berkeley DB code into the Android build tree.

$ cd <root>/external/sqlite/dist
$ tar zxf ${DB_PATH}
where <root> is the root of the Android source tree and ${DB_PATH} is the path where you
saved the db-xx.tar.gz version of the Berkeley DB distribution.

Update the Android build file to identify Berkeley DB.

Replace the Android.mk file with the one from the Berkeley DB source tree by doing the
following:
$ cd <root>/external/sqlite/dist
$ mv Android.mk Android.mk.sqlite
$ cp ${DB_INSTALL}/build_android/Android.mk ./
where ${DB_INSTALL} is the directory into which you installed the Berkeley DB library.

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The configuration options for performance tuning can be added/edited in the Android.mk
file by modifying LOCAL_CFLAGS located in the build libsqlite replacement section.
For more information, see Android Configuration Options (page 25).
It is also possible to change these settings using PRAGMA commands or through the
DB_CONFIG file.
5.

Build the new Android image.

To build the Android image with Berkeley DB SQL included, do the following:
$
$
$
$
$

cd <root>
. build/envsetup.sh
make clean-libsqlite
mmm -B external/sqlite/dist
make snod

You can locate the new image in <root>/out/target/product/generic.

Migrating from SQLite to Berkeley DB

This section describes how to enable automatic conversion of SQLite format databases
to Berkeley DB SQL when they are opened. To do this, you must first make sure that the
-DBDBSQL_CONVERT_SQLITE option is added to LOCAL_CFLAGS when you configure your
Berkeley DB database build.
1.

Build a static SQLite shell for Android platform.

Create a script, build_sqlite3_shell.sh, in the <root>/external/sqlite/dist directory.
#!/bin/bash
# This script shows how to use built-in toolchain to build
# sqlite3 shell, which is required by Berkeley DB SQL
# on-the-fly migration feature.
# Note: these variables should be set per active Android source tree
# We assume $PWD=$ROOT/external/sqlite/dist
ROOT=${PWD}/../../..
TOOLCHAIN=${ROOT}/prebuilt/linux-x86/toolchain/arm-eabi-4.4.0
CC=${TOOLCHAIN}/bin/arm-eabi-gcc
LIB="${ROOT}/out/target/product/generic/obj/lib"
INCLUDE="${ROOT}/ndk/build/platforms/android-8/arch-arm/usr/include"
# CFLAGS should be set per Android.mk.sqlite (the original
# version of SQLite's Android.mk)
CFLAGS="-DHAVE_USLEEP=1 -DSQLITE_THREADSAFE=1 -DNDEBUG=1 \
-DSQLITE_DEFAULT_JOURNAL_SIZE_LIMIT=1048576 \
-DSQLITE_ENABLE_MEMORY_MANAGEMENT=1 \
-DSQLITE_DEFAULT_AUTOVACUUM=1 \

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-DSQLITE_TEMP_STORE=3 -DSQLITE_ENABLE_FTS3 \
-DSQLITE_ENABLE_FTS3_BACKWARDS -DTHREADSAFE=1"
CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -I${INCLUDE}"
LDFLAGS="-ldl -nostdlib -Wl,--gc-sections -lc -llog -lgcc \
-Wl,--no-undefined,-z,nocopyreloc ${LIB}/crtend_android.o \
${LIB}/crtbegin_dynamic.o -L${LIB} -Wl,-rpath,${LIB}"
${CC} -DANDROID -DOS_ANDROID --sysroot="${SYSROOT}" -mandroid \
-fvisibility=hidden -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections \
-fPIC ${LDFLAGS} ${CFLAGS} \
sqlite3.c shell.c -o sqlite3orig
Ensure you adjust the variables as per your actual Android environment. This script is
suited for Android 2.2.
2.

Execute the build_sqlite3_shell.sh script and to get the static sqlite3 shell utility sqlite3orig.

Change the system image file.

Use the xyaffs2 utiltiy to decompress the system.img and get the directory system.
$ xyaffs2 ./system.img system
Add static sqlite3 shell utility.
$ cp <root>/external/sqlite/dist/sqlite3orig \
system/xbin/sqlite3orig
Use the mkyaffs2image utility to rebuild system.img from the changed directory system.
$ mkyaffs2image -f $PWD/system system.img

Note
To open the database in the SQLite format use the sqlite3orig command.

Building the Android JDBC Driver

The JDBC API is an alternative to the drop-in replacement. It is possible to build Berkeley DB
SQL for Android in such a way that a JDBC API is exposed to Android application developers.
This is done using the Android NDK.
This section describes how to build and use the BDB JDBC driver for Android. Note that the
BDB JDBC driver cannot currently be built on a Windows platform.
1.

Download and install the Android SDK. The installation instructions can be found here:
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3.

Build the BDB JDBC libraries.

If you do not already have it, download the Berkeley DB package from here:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/berkeleydb/
downloads/index.html
Note that you must be using a 5.3.x or higher version of the product in order for
these instructions to work. Once you have the package, unpack it:
$ tar zxvf db-x.y.z.tar.gz
$ cd db-x.y.z
Where x.y.z the major, minor, and point release version of the Berkeley DB
distribution which you are using.
Also, note that in the following instructions, the directory denoted by db-x.y.z,
above, is referred to as <db>.

Build an x86/x64 JDBC package. This is required because the building process will
generate target files which are required to build Android NDK. Also, the built JAR
file can be imported by eclipse, which will then convert it to the Android Dalvik JAR
format.
To do this, edit <db>/lang/sql/jdbc/SQLit/Database.java and
replace all instances of System.loadLibrary("sqlite_jni") with
System.loadLibrary("oracle-jdbc").
Once you have done this, configure and make the library. The following example
shows the minimum configuration options that you need to use in order to configure
the Berkeley DB JDBC driver. For your particular installation, other configuration
options might be interesting to you. See Configuring Berkeley DB (page 56) and
Android Configuration Options (page 25) for more information.
cd <db>/build_unix
../dist/configure --enable-jdbc && make

Enable encryption if required.

By default, encryption is disabled. To enable it, edit <db>/build_android/jdbc/jni/
Android.mk and change BDB_ENABLE_ENCRYPTION from false to true.
After enabling encryption, use pragma key to set the password. You must do this before
performing any database operations. For example:
# ./dbsql test.db
dbsql> pragma key="xyzzy";
dbsql> create table t1(x);
dbsql> .quit

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# ./dbsql test.db
dbsql> pragma key="xyzzy";
dbsql> .tables
t1
5.

Build the Android NDK:

$ cd <db>/build_android/jdbc/jni
$ <ndk-install-directory>/ndk-build
This results in the following required files:
<db>/build_android/jdbc/libs/armeabi/liboracle-jdbc.so
<db>/build_android/jdbc/libs/armeabi/dbsql
<db>/build_unix/jdbc/sqlite.jar

Having built the JDBC driver, you can now use it with your project. You can do this using
Eclipse and the ADT plugin, which you can get from here:
http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/eclipse-adt.html
To make sure everything is working:
1.

Start Eclipse and create an Android project. Use:

test_jdbc as the Android project name.
Create it as an Android 3.2 project.
For the package name, use example.jdbc.

This results in an empty code file. Copy and paste the following example code into that
file:
package example.testjdbc;
import SQLite.*;
import java.io.*;
import
import
import
import

android.app.Activity;
android.os.Bundle;
android.widget.TextView;
java.sql.*;

public class Test_jdbcActivity extends Activity {

/*
* This is the main entrance/body of our sample program. This
* example illustrates all of the major API usages.
*/
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

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super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
TextView tv = new TextView(this);
tv.setText("App Started");
setContentView(tv);
System.out.println("Appstart: ");
String url =
"jdbc:sqlite://data/data/example.testjdbc/example.db";
Connection con;
String dropString = "drop table if exists COFFEES";
String createString;
createString = "create table COFFEES "
+ "(COF_NAME varchar(32), "
+ "SUP_ID int, " + "PRICE float, " + "SALES int, "
+ "TOTAL int)";
String insertString = "drop table COFFEES if exisits";
String query = "select COF_NAME, PRICE from COFFEES";
Statement stmt;
try {
Class.forName("SQLite.JDBCDriver");
} catch (java.lang.ClassNotFoundException e) {
System.err.print("ClassNotFoundException: ");
System.err.println(e.getMessage());
}
try {
con =
DriverManager.getConnection(url, "myLogin", "myPW");
stmt = con.createStatement();
stmt.executeUpdate(dropString);
stmt.executeUpdate(createString);
stmt.close();
stmt = con.createStatement();
stmt.executeUpdate("insert into COFFEES "
+ "values('Colombian', 00101, 7.99, 0, 0)");
stmt.executeUpdate("insert into COFFEES "
+ "values('French_Roast', 00049, 8.99, 0, 0)");
stmt.executeUpdate("insert into COFFEES "
+ "values('Espresso', 00150, 9.99, 0, 0)");
stmt.executeUpdate("insert into COFFEES "

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+ "values('Colombian_Decaf', 00101, 8.99, 0, 0)");

stmt.executeUpdate("insert into COFFEES "
+ "values('French_Roast_Decaf', 00049, 9.99, 0, 0)");
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(query);
System.out.println("Coffee Break Coffees and Prices:");
while (rs.next()) {
String s = rs.getString("COF_NAME");
float f = rs.getFloat("PRICE");
System.out.println(s + "
" + f);
}
stmt.close();
con.close();
} catch (SQLException ex) {
System.err.println("SQLException: " + ex.getMessage());
}
}
}
3.

Copy the following files into place:

$ cd <workspace>/test_jdbc
$ mkdir -p libs/armeabi
$ cp -r <db>/build_android/jdbc/libs/armeabi/liboracle-jdbc.so \
libs/armeabi
$ cp -r <db>/build_unix/jdbc/sqlite.jar libs

Back in Eclipse, right click the project name, and select the refresh option to reload the
project from the directory. The two new files that were copied into place in the previous
step are now included in the project view.

Convert the JAR file to the Android Dalvik format:

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Right-click on your project.

Choose Build Path -> Configure Build Path

Click the Libraries tab.

Click Add JARS.

Run the project:

Choose Property -> Android and select any one of the usable build targets.

Right click the project. Choose Run As -> Android

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Verify your installation. After a short pause (depending on the speed of your system), the
application logo is displayed. Use the Android adb command line application to make sure
the application is running as expected:
$ cd <android-sdk>/platform-tools
$ ./adb logcat
I/System.out( 539): Appstart:
I/System.out( 539): Coffee Break Coffees and Prices:
I/System.out( 539): Colombian
7.99
I/System.out( 539): French_Roast
8.99
I/System.out( 539): Espresso
9.99
I/System.out( 539): Colombian_Decaf
8.99
I/System.out( 539): French_Roast_Decaf
9.99
You can also check if the database (example.db) exists in the emulator:
$ ./adb shell ls /data/data/example.testjdbc
example.db
example.db-journal
lib
Finally, check the database using the BDB SQL shell:
$ ./adb push <db>/build_android/jdbc/libs/armeabi/dbsql \
/data/data/example.testjdbc
326 KB/s (1293760 bytes in 3.865s)
$ ./adb shell
root@android:/ # cd /data/data/example.testjdbc
root@android:/data/data/example.testjdbc # ./dbsql example.db
Berkeley DB 11g Release 2, library version 11.2.5.2.36
Enter ".help" for instructions
Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";"
dbsql> .tables
COFFEES
dbsql> select * from COFFEES;
Colombian|101|7.99|0|0
French_Roast|49|8.99|0|0
Espresso|150|9.99|0|0
Colombian_Decaf|101|8.99|0|0
French_Roast_Decaf|49|9.99|0|0
dbsql> .quit

Android Configuration Options

There are several configuration options you can specify in LOCAL_CFLAGS located in the
Android.mk file.
BDBSQL_CONVERT_SQLITE

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This option enables to convert SQLite database to BDB SQL database format. See Migrating
from SQLite to Berkeley DB (page 19) for more information.
BDBSQL_SHARE_PRIVATE
This flag is enabled by default and keeps all the region files in memory instead of the disk.
This flag also implements database-level locking.
SQLITE_DEFAULT_CACHE_SIZE
SQLite provides an in-memory cache which you size according to the maximum number of
database pages that you want to hold in memory at any given time. See Changing Compile
Options (page 64).
SQLITE_DEFAULT_JOURNAL_SIZE_LIMIT
For SQLite, this pragma identifies the maximum size that the journal file is allowed to be.
Berkeley DB does not have a journal file, but it writes and uses log files. A new log file is
created when the current log file has reached the defined maximum size. This flag defines
the maximum size for a log file. Default value is 10 MB for Berkeley DB SQL interface.
SQLITE_HAS_CODEC
Causes the Berkeley DB SQL interface to be built with encryption support. See SQL
Encryption in the Berkeley DB Getting Started with the SQL APIs guide for usage details.
Hard-coded numbers in the build can be adjusted using the following SQLite PRAGMA
commands:
PRAGMA cache_size
PRAGMA journal_size_limit
You can configure most aspects of your Berkeley DB environment by using the DB_CONFIG file.

Using the JDBC Driver in ADF Mobile for Android

This section describes how to build and use BDB JDBC driver for Android in ADF Mobile.
1.

Setup the ADF Mobile environments:

ADF Business Components: 11.1.2.4.39.64.36.1
ADF Mobile Framework: 11.1.2.4.39.64
JDeveloper: 11g Release 2(11.1.2.4.0)

Prepare the building environment.

Download the OJEC1.1.1 headless package from

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/embedded/downloads/javame/
index.html#2

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Unzip it and move btclasses.zip from OJEC1.1.1_HOME to OJEC1.1.1_HOME/lib.

Modify BDB_HOME/lang/sql/jdbc/config.ojec11 as follows:

Specify OJEC_HOME with the location where OJEC1.1.1 is unzipped to
Specify JDBCSQLITE_HOME with BDB_HOME/build_unix/jdbc
Remove foundation.jar from BOOT_CLASSPATH
Remove the last line which is "./configure"

c.
3.

Export the variables in config.ojec11 to the environment using an appropriate shell

command for example, ". BDB_HOME/lang/sql/jdbc/config.ojec11".

Build the Android JDBC driver.

For instructions on how to build Android JDBC driver, see Building the Android JDBC
Driver (page 20).
Ensure that the JDBC driver includes SQLite/JDBC0 classes by "jar tf sqlite.jar".

Apply Android JDBC in ADF Mobile.

Download the ADF Mobile in JDeveloper by selecting Help -> Check for Updates.
The ADF Mobile extension will be downloaded in jdev_install/jdeveloper/jdev/
extensions/oracle.adf.mobile.

In JDeveloper, open the HR sample application in jdev_install/jdeveloper/jdev/

extensions/oracle.adf.mobile/Samples/HR.

Add BDB Android JDBC to application libraries and classpath.

Replace the JDBC driver in ADF Mobile framework as follows.

$ cd jdev_install/jdeveloper/jdev/extensions/oracle.adf.mobile
/Android
$ unzip Oracle_ADFmf_Framework.zip
...
$ cp <db>/build_unix/jdbc/sqlite.jar ./framework/Android/build/
java_res_<release and debug>/assets/storage/jvm/lib/
$ cp <db>/build_android/jdbc/libs/armeabi/liboracle-jdbc.so .
/framework/Android/build/java_res_<release and debug>/assets/storage
/jvm/lib/
$ zip -9 -r Oracle_ADFmf_Framework.zip framework
...
$ rm -fr framework

Modify the sample application.

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$ cd HR_SAMPLE/.adf/META-INF
$ mv HR.db HR.db.orig
$ mv hr.sql hr.sql.orig
$ vi hr.sql (Remove all lines with "COMMIT" and "REM") $
BDB_HOME/build_unix/dbsql HR.db
.read hr.sql
.exit
b.
6.

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Modify LifeCycleListernImpl.start() method by replacing the try catch block of getting

a connection and executing the query with copyDB().

Run the sample application.

Configure the ADF Mobile preferences for Android. Select Tools -> Preferences ->
ADF Mobile -> Platforms -> Android. Specify the locations of Android SDK, Android
platform, and the keystore in the Release mode which is used to sign on the
application.

Create a deployment profile. Select Application -> Deploy -> New Deployment Profile.
Choose ADF Mobile for Android as profile type. In the form of deployment profile
properties, choose Release Mode.

Launch the Android SDK Manager and start the AVD emulator.

Deploy the application by selecting Application -> deploy ->

(the_just_created_deployment_profile). Before deployment, ensure that the folder
HR_SAMPLE/deploy is removed.

Run the application by clicking the application icon in the emulator.

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Chapter 5. Building Berkeley DB for Windows

This chapter contains general instructions on building Berkeley DB for specific windows
platforms using specific compilers. The Windows FAQ (page 46) also contains helpful
information.
The build_windows directory in the Berkeley DB distribution contains project files for
Microsoft Visual Studio:
Project File

Description
Berkeley_DB.sln

Visual Studio 2005 (8.0) workspace

*.vcproj

Visual Studio 2005 (8.0) projects

Berkeley_DB_vs2010.sln

Visual Studio 2010 workspace

*.vcxproj

Visual Studio 2010 projects

These project files can be used to build Berkeley DB for Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista,
Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows 8.

Building Berkeley DB for 32 bit Windows

Visual C++ .NET 2012
1.

Choose File -> Open -> Project/Solution.... In the build_windows directory, select
Berkeley_DB_vs2010.sln and click Open.

The Update VC++ Compiler and Libraries dialog box will open automatically. Click Update
and wait for the projects to be converted.

Choose the desired project configuration from the drop-down menu on the tool bar
(either Debug or Release).

Choose the desired platform configuration from the drop-down menu on the tool bar
(usually Win32 or x64).

To build, right-click on the Berkeley_DB_vs2010 solution and select Build Solution.

Visual C++ .NET 2010

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Choose File -> Open -> Project/Solution.... In the build_windows directory, select
Berkeley_DB_vs2010.sln and click Open.

Choose the desired project configuration from the drop-down menu on the tool bar
(either Debug or Release).

Choose the desired platform configuration from the drop-down menu on the tool bar
(usually Win32 or x64).

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To build, right-click on the Berkeley_DB_vs2010 solution and select Build Solution.

Visual C++ .NET 2008

Choose File -> Open -> Project/Solution.... In the build_windows directory, select
Berkeley_DB.sln and click Open.

The Visual Studio Conversion Wizard will open automatically. Click the Finish button.

On the next screen click the Close button.

Choose the desired project configuration from the drop-down menu on the tool bar
(either Debug or Release).

Choose the desired platform configuration from the drop-down menu on the tool bar
(usually Win32 or x64).

To build, right-click on the Berkeley_DB solution and select Build Solution.

Visual C++ .NET 2005

Choose File -> Open -> Project/Solution.... In the build_windows directory, select
Berkeley_DB.sln and click Open

Choose the desired project configuration from the drop-down menu on the tool bar
(either Debug or Release).

Choose the desired platform configuration from the drop-down menu on the tool bar
(usually Win32 or x64).

To build, right-click on the Berkeley_DB solution and select Build Solution.

Build results
The results of your build will be placed in one of the following Berkeley DB subdirectories,
depending on the configuration that you chose:
build_windows\Win32\Debug
build_windows\Win32\Release
build_windows\Win32\Debug_static
build_windows\Win32\Release_static
When building your application during development, you should normally use compile options
"Debug Multithreaded DLL" and link against build_windows\Debug\libdb61d.lib.

Note
Building your application with the debug configuration will create a Berkeley DB
library and utilities with debugging symbols, as well as load various routines that can

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be called from a debugger to display pages, cursor queues, and so forth. If installed,
the utilities will not be stripped. This configuration should not be specified when
building production binaries.
You can also build using a release version of the Berkeley DB libraries and tools, which will be
placed in build_windows\Win32\Release\libdb61.lib. When linking against the release
build, you should compile your code with the "Release Multithreaded DLL" compile option. You
will also need to add the build_windows directory to the list of include directories of your
application's project, or copy the Berkeley DB include files to another location.

Building Berkeley DB for 64-bit Windows

The following procedure can be used to build natively on a 64-bit system or to cross-compile
from a 32-bit system.
When building 64-bit binaries, the output directory will be one of the following Berkeley DB
subdirectories, depending upon the configuration that you chose:
build_windows\x64\Debug
build_windows\x64\Release
build_windows\x64\Debug_static
build_windows\x64\Release_static

x64 build with Visual Studio 2005 or newer

Follow the build instructions for your version of Visual Studio, as described in Building
Berkeley DB for 32 bit Windows (page 29).

Select x64 from the Platform Configuration dropdown.

Right click on Solution 'Berkeley_DB' in the Solution Explorer, and select Build Solution

Building Berkeley DB with Cygwin

To build Berkeley DB with Cygwin, follow the instructions in Building for UNIX/POSIX (page
55).

Building the C++ API

C++ support is built automatically on Windows.

Building the C++ STL API

In the project list of the Berkeley_DB.sln solution, build the "db_stl" project and
"db_stl_static" project to build STL API as a dynamic or static library respectively. And in
your application, you should link this library file as well as the Berkeley DB library file to
your application. The STL API library file is by default always put at the same location as the
Berkeley DB library file.

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And you need to include the STL API header files in your application code. If you are using the
Berkeley DB source tree, the header files are in <Berkeley DB Source Root >/stl directory; If
you are using the pre-built installed version, these header files are in < Berkeley DB Installed
Directory>/include, as well as the db.h and db_cxx.h header files.

Building the Java API

Java support is not built automatically. The following instructions assume that you have
installed the Sun Java Development Kit in d:\java. Of course, if you installed elsewhere or
have different Java software, you will need to adjust the pathnames accordingly.
1.

Set your include directories.

In Visual Studio 2005/Visual Studio 2008 - Choose Tools -> Options -> Projects -> VC++
Directories. Under the "Show directories for" pull-down, select "Include files". Add the
full pathnames for the d:\java\include and d:\java\include\win32 directories.
Then click OK.
In Visual Studio 2010/Visual Studio 2012 - Right-click db_java project, choose
Properties->Configuration Properties-> VC++ Directories->Include Directories. Add the
full pathnames for the d:\java\include and d:\java\include\win32 directories.
Then click OK.
These are the directories needed when including jni.h.

Set the executable files directories.

In Visual Studio 2005/Visual Studio 2008 - Choose Tools -> Options -> Projects -> VC++
Directories. Under the "Show directories for" pull-down, select "Executable files". Add
the full pathname for the d:\java\bin directory, then click OK.
In Visual Studio 2010/Visual Studio 2012 - Right-click db_java project, choose
Properties->Configuration Properties-> VC++ Directories->Executable Directories. Add
the full pathnames for the d:\java\bin directories. Then click OK.
This is the directory needed to find javac.

Set the build type to Release or Debug in the drop-down on the tool bar.

Change the compiling option if you are using Java 1.7

In Visual Studio 2005/Visual Studio 2008/Visual Studio 2010/Visual Studio 2012 - Rightclick db_java project, choose Properties->Configuration Properties-> Custom Build
Step, Remove the option of "-target 1.5" in the "Command Line".

To build, right-click on db_java and select Build. This builds the Java support library
for Berkeley DB and compiles all the java files, placing the resulting db.jar and
dbexamples.jar files in one of the following Berkeley DB subdirectories, depending on
the configuration that you chose:
build_windows\Win32\Debug

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Building the C# API

The C# support is built by a separate Visual Studio solution and requires version 2.0 (or
higher) of the .NET platform. If the Berkeley DB utilities are required, build Berkeley DB
first following the instructions under Building Berkeley DB for 32 bit Windows (page 29) or
Building Berkeley DB for 64-bit Windows (page 31).
To build the C# API in Visual Studio 2005/Visual Studio 2008, the solution is build_windows
\BDB_dotnet.sln; in Visual Studio 2010/Visual Studio 2012, the solution is build_windows
\BDB_dotnet_vs2010.sln.
By default, the solution will build the native libraries, the managed assembly and all example
programs. The NUnit tests need to be built explicitly because of their dependence upon the
NUnit assembly. The native libraries will be placed in one of the following subdirectories,
depending upon the chosen configuration:
build_windows\Win32\Debug
build_windows\Win32\Release
build_windows\x64\Debug
build_windows\x64\Release
The managed assembly and all C# example programs will be placed in one of the following
subdirectories, depending upon the chosen configuration:
build_windows\AnyCPU\Debug
build_windows\AnyCPU\Release
The native libraries need to be locatable by the .NET platform, meaning they must be copied
into an application's directory, the Windows or System directory, or their location must
be added to the PATH environment variable. The example programs demonstrate how to
programmatically edit the PATH variable.

Building the SQL API

SQL support is built as part of the default build on Windows. For information on the build
instructions, see Building Berkeley DB for Windows (page 29).
The SQL library is built as libdb_sql61.dll in the Release mode or libdb_sql61d.dll in the
Debug mode. An SQL command line interpreter called dbsql.exe is also built.

Binary Compatibility With SQLite

libdb_sql61.dll is compatible with sqlite3.dll. You can copy libdb_sql61.dll to
sqlite3.dll and dbsql.exe to sqlite3.exe, and use these applications as a replacement
for the standard SQLite binaries with the same names. However, if you want to do this, then
any legacy data in use by those tools must be migrated from the standard SQLite database to a
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Berkeley DB equivalent. For information on migrating data from standard SQLite databases to
a Berkeley DB SQL database, see the Berkeley DB Getting Started with the SQL APIs guide.

Warning
Rename your dlls and executables to the standard SQLite names with extreme care.
Doing this will cause all existing tools to break that currently have data stored in a
standard SQLite database.
For best results, rename your dlls and command line tool to use the standard SQLite
names only if you know there are no other tools on your production platform that
rely on standard SQLite.

Setting Encryption
To enable encryption in the Berkeley DB SQL API, specify SQLITE_HAS_CODEC in Preprocessor
Definitions of the db_sql project. See SQL Encryption in the Berkeley DB Getting Started with
the SQL APIs guide for usage details.

Changing Compile Options

There are several configuration options you can add to the Preprocessor Definitions of
the db_sql project. For example, to enable the option BDBSQL_FILE_PER_TABLE, add
BDBSQL_FILE_PER_TABLE=1; to the Preprocessor Definitions of the db_sql project.
BDBSQL_DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE
To set the default page size when you create a database, specify the
BDBSQL_DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE flag. The assigned value must be 0, 512, 1024, 2048,
4096, 8192, 16384, 32768, or 65536. The default value is 4096. If the value is set to
zero, Berkeley DB queries the file system to determine the best page size, and the
value of SQLITE_DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE is used to calculate the cache size, because the
cache size is specified as a number of pages.
BDBSQL_FILE_PER_TABLE
To generate each table in a separate file, rather than as subdatabases in a single
file, specify the BDBSQL_FILE_PER_TABLE flag. When this option is enabled, the SQL
database name is used as a directory name. This directory contains one file for the
metadata and one file each for every table created by the SQL API. Note that adding
or deleting files from the database directory may corrupt your database. To backup
the metadata (schema), make a copy of the metadata and table00001 files from the
database directory. Make a new copy whenever the schema is changed.
BDBSQL_LOG_REGIONMAX
To configure the log region size for the underlying storage engine, specify
the BDBSQL_LOG_REGIONMAX flag. For more information, see DB_ENV>get_lg_regionmax().
BDBSQL_OMIT_LEAKCHECK
For Berkeley DB to use the default system allocation routines rather than the SQLite
allocation routines, specify the BDBSQL_OMIT_LEAKCHECK flag.

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BDBSQL_OMIT_LOG_REMOVE
Berkeley DB automatically removes log files that are no longer required That is, files
that are older than the most recent checkpoint. To disable this functionality, specify
the BDBSQL_OMIT_LOG_REMOVE flag. It is necessary to provide this flag if you are
using replication with Berkeley DB SQL.
BDBSQL_OMIT_SHARING
To create a private environment rather than a shared environment, specify the
BDBSQL_OMIT_SHARING flag. That is, the cache and other region files will be created
in memory rather than using file backed shared memory. For more information, see
the DB_PRIVATE flag of DB_ENV->open()
BDBSQL_SINGLE_THREAD
To disable locking and thread safe connections, specify the BDBSQL_SINGLE_THREAD
flag. If an application is going to use Berkeley DB from a single thread and a single
process, enabling this flag can deliver significant performance advantages.
SQLITE_DEFAULT_CACHE_SIZE
SQLite provides an in-memory cache which you size according to the maximum
number of database pages that you want to hold in memory at any given time.
Berkeley DB's in-memory cache feature performs the same function as SQLite. To
specify the suggested maximum number of pages of disk cache that will be allocated
per open database file specify the SQLITE_DEFAULT_CACHE_SIZE flag. Default value
is 2000 pages. For more information, see the SQLite documentation on PRAGMA
default_cache_size.
SQLITE_DEFAULT_JOURNAL_SIZE_LIMIT
For SQLite, this pragma identifies the maximum size that the journal file is
allowed to be. Berkeley DB does not have a journal file, but it writes and uses
log files. A new log file is created when the current log file has reached the
defined maximum size. To define this maximum size for a log file, specify the
SQLITE_DEFAULT_JOURNAL_SIZE_LIMIT flag. Default value is 10 MB for the Berkeley DB
SQL interface.

Enabling Extensions
The Berkeley DB SQL API provides extensions such as full text search and R-Tree index. To
enable these extensions, do the following:
1.

Open the Berkeley DB solution in Visual Studio.

Specify SQLITE_ENABLE_FTS3 or SQLITE_ENABLE_RTREE in Preprocessor Definitions of the

db_sql project.

Re-build the db_sql project.

See the SQLite Documentation for more information on full text search and R-Tree.

Disabling Log Checksums

You can disable checksums in log records so as to provide a boost to database performance.
However, this comes at the risk of having undetectable log file corruption that could prevent
data recovery in the event of database corruption.

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Note
Note that disabling log record checksums is meant to only be used with the SQL
interface. However, disabling checksums for the SQL interface also disables checksums
for the non-SQL interfaces.
To disable log checksums, before you build the library edit the build_windows/db_config.h
file, and delete the following line:
#define HAVE_LOG_CHECKSUM 1

Building the JDBC Driver

This section describes the steps to build the JDBC driver.
1.

Configure your build environment. For information on how to configure to build Java
applications, see Building the Java API (page 32).

Build the SQL project in Debug mode.

Open Berkeley_DB.sln or Berkeley_DB_vs2010.sln in Visual Studio. If you are using Java

1.6, do the following:
In the Solution Explorer, right-click the db_sql_jdbc project and select properties.
In the Configuration Properties -> Build Events -> Pre-Build Event section, alter the
command to refer to JDBC2z instead of JDBC2x.
If you are using Java 1.7, do the following:
In the Solution Explorer, right-click the db_sql_jdbc project and select properties.
In the Configuration Properties -> Build Events -> Pre-Build Event section, alter the
command to refer to JDBC2z1 instead of JDBC2x. Also, remove the option of "-target
1.5".
Go to db\lang\sql\jdbc\SQLite, and replace JDBCDriver.java
with JDBCDriver.java17, and replace JDBCDataSource.java with
JDBCDataSource.java17.

To enable encryption in the Berkeley DB SQL JDBC driver, make sure the db_dql project
is built with encryption enabled and specify HAVE_SQLITE3_KEY in Preprocessor
Definitions of the db_sql_jdbc project. See SQL Encryption in the Berkeley DB Getting
Started with the SQL APIs guide for usage details.

Build the db_sql_jdbc project in Visual Studio.

You can test the build by entering the following commands from the db\build_windows
\Win32\Debug directory:
javac -cp ".;jdbc.jar" -d . ..\..\..\lang\sql\jdbc\test3.java

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java -cp ".;jdbc.jar" test3

Using the JDBC Driver

This section describes the steps to download, build, and run sample programs using the built
JDBC driver.
Downloading JDBC Sample Code
The download link for JDBC sample code is available on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN)
. You can identify the link by the "JDBC programming examples from all three editions (ZIP
format)" text beside it.
Modifying Sample Code
Before running the sample code, do the following:
1.

Unzip the file containing the sample code to a new directory (for example, jdbc_ex).

Substitute jdbc:sqlite:/<db-file-name> for the generic JDBC URL that appears in the
code. That is, put jdbc:sqlite:/<db-file-name> between the quotation marks in the
line:
String url = "jdbc:mySubprotocol:myDataSource";
Note: The <db-file-name> can either be an absolute path name like "jdbc:sqlite:/D:
\\jdbc_ex_db\\myDataSource", or a relative path-file-name like "jdbc:sqlite:/..
\\jdbc_ex_db\myDataSource", or a file name, like "jdbc:sqlite:/myDataSource",
in which the database file will be stored at the current directory. Note that all path
arguments require a leading slash, even in the case of relative paths or a database in the
local directory. Please refer to the above examples.

Substitute SQLite.JDBCDriver for myDriver.ClassName in the line:

Class.forName("myDriver.ClassName");

Substitute the username and password you use for your database in the following:
"myLogin", "myPassword".
This is optional.

If your JDK version is above 1.5, change the variable name enum in OutputApplet.java
to some other variable name because, as of JDK release 5 enum is a keyword and can not
be used as an identifier.

Building and Running the JDBC Sample code

See Building the JDBC Driver (page 36) for instructions about building JDBC driver.
To build and run the JDBC examples do the following:
1.

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$ javac -classpath ".;jdbc.jar" -d . \path\to\jdbc_ex\*.java

$ java -classpath ".;jdbc.jar" <ClassName, eg. CreateCoffees>
2.

After you run the CreateCoffees example, use the dbsql executable to open the
myDataSource database file and check if the table COFFEES has been successfully created
in the database.
$ dbsql myDataSourcedbsql> .tables
COFFEES
dbsql> .dump
PRAGMA foreign_keys=OFF;
BEGIN TRANSACTION;
CREATE TABLE COFFEES (COF_NAME varchar(32),/
SUP_ID int, PRICE float, SALES int, TOTAL int);
COMMIT;
dbsql>

Repeat step 2 to run other examples.

Note: Some examples like AutoGenKeys are not yet supported by BDB JDBC driver. The
SQLFeatureNotSupportedException is displayed for those unsupported examples.

Using the JDBC Driver in ADF/JDeveloper

This section describes steps to use BDB JDBC driver in the integrated development
environment ADF/JDeveloper.
1.

Build the JDBC driver. For more information, see Building the JDBC Driver (page 36) .
Ensure that the Java environment used to build the JDBC driver is same as used in ADF/
JDeveloper.
Include JDBC driver path in the system CLASSPATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Create BDB JDBC Database Connection in JDeveloper. ADF accesses the database by
Database Connection. As long as the database file exists and has tables, you can see all
tables located by the database connection in the project application resources panel.
Select File -> New -> General -> Connections -> Database Connection.
a.

In the panel of "Create Database Connection", choose "Generic JDBC" as

"Connection Type".

In the "Generic JDBC Settings" section, select "New" to register a JDBC driver.

In the registration form, enter "SQLite.JDBCDriver" for Driver Class.

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Enter "DBSQL_JDBC" for "Library Name," and add the path of the JDBC driver to
the Class Path.

Select "OK" to save.

Test the connection in the panel of Create Database Connection.

Configure the JDBC URL with jdbc:sqlite:/<db-file-name>. The <db-filename> should include the database file path which must be absolute.

Select Test Connection. If the connection is proved to be working, a "Success"

message is displayed.

Apply BDB JDBC Database Connection in the ADF application. After successfully creating
the database connection, you can create and initialize ADF BC component with it. During
initialization, choose "SQL92" as SQL Platform and "Java" as Data Type Map for the
connection.
You can define the ADF BC component by adding entity objects, view objects etc. and the
database connection takes charge of accessing the database. For more information, see
the example lang/sql/adf/EX_ADF.

Building the ODBC Driver

This section describes the steps required to build the ODBC driver.
Configuring Your System
To configure your system prior to building the ODBC driver, do the following:
1.

Download and install the latest SQLite ODBC driver Windows installer package for 32 bit
Windows or 64 bit Windows.

Download and install the latest Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) SDK . The
MDAC SDK is only required for testing the installation.

Building the Library

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Build the SQL project in Release mode. See Building the SQL API (page 33).

Open Visual Studio.

Load the Berkeley_DB solution file into Visual Studio.

Set the build target to Release

Build the solution.

Select File -> Add -> Existing Project.

Select build_windows.

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Select the appropriate directory for your compiler: VS8 or VS10.

Select db_sql_odbc.vcproj and add it to the Berkeley_DB solution. This adds the
db_sql_odbc Visual Studio project to the Berkeley_DB solution file.

10. Build the db_sql_odbc project. This can be done by right-clicking the db_sql_odbc
project in the project explorer panel, and selecting build.
The db_sql_odbc61.dll, libdb_sql61.dll and libdb61.dll files are now built.
Installing the Library
Rename db_sql_odbc61.dll to sqlite3odbc.dll and copy the dll files built in the Building
the Library section to the Windows system folder.
The Windows system folder is different on different systems, but is often C:\WINDOWS
\System32.
Testing the ODBC Install
The steps to verify that the installed driver works are as follows:
1.

Open the Unicode ODBCTest application. On Windows: Windows start -> Microsoft Data
Access SDK 2.8 -> ODBCTest (Unicode, x86).

Select the Conn -> Full Connect... menu item.

Select SQLite3 Datasource and click OK.

Select the Stmt -> SQLExecDirect... menu item.

Enter CREATE TABLE t1(x); in the Statement text box and click OK.

Verify that no error messages were output to the error window.

Using the ADO.NET Driver

Go to the Oracle Berkeley DB download page, and download the ADO.NET package. Build the
package by following the instructions included in the package.

Building the Tcl API

Tcl support is not built automatically. See Loading Berkeley DB with Tcl for information on
sites from which you can download Tcl and which Tcl versions are compatible with Berkeley
DB. These notes assume that Tcl is installed as d:\tcl, but you can change that if you want.
The Tcl library must be built as the same build type as the Berkeley DB library (both Release
or both Debug). We found that the binary release of Tcl can be used with the Release
configuration of Berkeley DB, but you will need to build Tcl from sources for the Debug
configuration. Before building Tcl, you will need to modify its makefile to make sure that you
are building a debug version, including thread support. This is because the set of DLLs linked
into the Tcl executable must match the corresponding set of DLLs used by Berkeley DB.

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Set the include directories.

In Visual Studio 2005/Visual Studio 2008 - Choose Tools -> Options -> Projects -> VC++
Directories. Under the "Show directories for" pull-down, select "Include files". Add the
full pathname for d:\tcl\include, then click OK.
In Visual Studio 2010/Visual Studio 2012 - Right-click db_tcl project, choose Properties>Configuration Properties-> VC++ Directories->Include Directories. Add the full
pathnames for d:\tcl\include, then click OK.
This is the directory that contains tcl.h.

Set the library files directory.

In Visual Studio 2005/Visual Studio 2008 - Choose Tools -> Options -> Projects -> VC++
Directories. Under the "Show directories for" pull-down, select "Library files". Add the
full pathname for the d:\tcl\lib directory, then click OK.
In Visual Studio 2010 - Right-click db_tcl project, choose Properties->Configuration
Properties-> VC++ Directories->Library Directories. Add the full pathname for the d:
\tcl\lib directory, then click OK.
This is the directory needed to find tcl85.lib (or whatever the library is named in your
distribution).

Set the build type to Release or Debug in the drop-down on the tool bar.

To build, right-click on db_tcl and select Build. This builds the Tcl support library for
Berkeley DB, placing the result into one of the following Berkeley DB subdirectories,
depending upon the configuration that you chose:
build_windows\Win32\Debug\libdb_tcl61d.dll
build_windows\Win32\Release\libdb_tcl61.dll

If you use a version different from Tcl 8.5.x you will need to change the name of the Tcl
library used in the build (for example, tcl85.lib) to the appropriate name. To do this, right
click on db_tcl, go to Properties -> Linker -> Input -> Additional dependencies and change
tcl85.lib to match the Tcl version you are using.

Distributing DLLs
When distributing applications linked against the DLL (not static) version of the library, the
DLL files you need will be found in one of the following Berkeley DB subdirectories, depending
upon the configuration that you chose:
build_windows\Win32\Debug
build_windows\Win32\Release
build_windows\Win32\Debug_static
build_windows\Win32\Release_static
build_windows\x64\Debug
build_windows\x64\Release
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You may also need to redistribute DLL files needed for the compiler's runtime. Generally,
these runtime DLL files can be installed in the same directory that will contain your installed
Berkeley DB DLLs. This directory may need to be added to your System PATH environment
variable. Check your compiler's license and documentation for specifics on redistributing
runtime DLLs.

Additional build options

There are several build options that you can configure when building Berkeley DB on Windows.
To specify these, select Project Properties->C/C++->Command Line and add the property.
These are some of the additional properties that you can specify when you are building
Berkeley DB on Windows:
Enable failchk broadcasting. This feature allows DB_ENV->failchk() to inform all processes in
the environment that a failure has occurred. Those processes will return DB_RUNRECOVERY
rather than hanging for an indefinite amount of time.
/D HAVE_LOCALIZATION
Enable localized error message text, if available. This option should not be used when
enabling stripped messages.
/D HAVE_MIXED_SIZE_ADDRESSING
Allows for the sharing of the BDB database environment between 32-bit and 64-bit
applications. Note that if you use this macro to rebuild your Berkeley DB library,
then you need to also rebuild both your 32-bit and 64-bit applications using /D
HAVE_MIXED_SIZE_ADDRESSING.
Note that use of this macro means that private environments are disabled for the library.
/D HAVE_STRIPPED_MESSAGES
Causes all error messages to be stripped of their textual information. This option should not
be used when enabling localization support. Use of this property can reduce your library
footprint by up to 42KB (for DLLs) or 98KB (for a .lib).
Note that this option is automatically enabled if you build using the db_small project
name. For more information on building a small library, see Building a small memory
footprint library (page 43).
If you use this build option, you can get an idea of what text should be issued for a given
error message by using the Berkeley DB Message Reference Guide.
/D DIAGNOSTIC
Included automatically in the Debug build. Allows a number of additional checks to be
performed when BDB is running, and also causes some failures to trigger process abort
rather than returning errors to the application. Applications built using this option

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should not share database environments with applications built without this option. The
DIAGNOSTIC option should not be specified when configuring to build production binaries
because it degrades performance.
/D UMRW
Rational Software's Purify product and other software analysis run-time tools complain
about uninitialized reads/writes of structure fields whose only purpose is padding, as well
as when heap memory that was never initialized is written to disk. Specify this option
during configuration to mask these errors. The UMRW option should not be specified when
configuring to build production binaries.

Building a small memory footprint library

For applications that don't require all of the functionality of the full Berkeley DB library, an
option is provided to build a static library with certain functionality disabled. In particular,
cryptography, hash, heap and queue access methods, replication and verification are all
turned off. In addition, all message text is stripped from the library. This can reduce the
memory footprint of Berkeley DB significantly.

Note
If your library has stripped messages, you can get an idea of what text should be
issued for a given error message by using the Berkeley DB Message Reference Guide .
In general on Windows systems, you will want to evaluate the size of the final application, not
the library build. The Microsoft LIB file format (like UNIX archives) includes copies of all of
the object files and additional information. The linker rearranges symbols and strips out the
overhead, and the resulting application is much smaller than the library. There is also a Visual
C++ optimization to "Minimize size" that will reduce the library size by a few percent.
A Visual C++ project file called db_small is provided for this small memory configuration.
During a build, static libraries are created in Release or Debug, respectively. The library
name is libdb_small60sd.lib for the debug build, or libdb_small60s.lib for the release
build.
For assistance in further reducing the size of the Berkeley DB library, or in building small
memory footprint libraries on other systems, please contact Berkeley DB support.

Running the test suite under Windows

To build the test suite on Windows platforms, you will need to configure Tcl support. You will
also need sufficient main memory (at least 64MB), and disk (around 250MB of disk will be
sufficient).

Building the software needed by the tests

The test suite must be run against a Debug version of Berkeley DB, so you will need a Debug
version of the Tcl libraries. This involves building Tcl from its source. See the Tcl sources for
more information. Then build the Tcl API - see Building the Tcl API (page 40) for details.

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Visual Studio 2005 or newer

To build for testing, perform the following steps:
1.

Open the Berkeley DB solution.

Ensure that the target configuration is Debug

Right click the db_tcl project in the Solution Explorer, and select Build.

Right click the db_test project in the Solution Explorer, and select Build.

Running the test suite under Windows

Before running the tests for the first time, you must edit the file include.tcl in your build
directory and change the line that reads:
set tclsh_path SET_YOUR_TCLSH_PATH
You will want to use the location of the tclsh program (be sure to include the name of the
executable). For example, if Tcl is installed in d:\tcl, this line should be the following:
set tclsh_path d:\tcl\bin\tclsh85.exe
If your path includes spaces be sure to enclose it in quotes:
set tclsh_path "c:\Program Files\tcl\bin\tclsh85.exe"
Make sure that the path to Berkeley DB's tcl library is in your current path. Edit your PATH
using the Control Panel -> System -> Advanced system settings -> Environment Variables
dialog. On earlier versions of Windows, you may find it convenient to add a line to c:
\AUTOEXEC.BAT:
SET PATH=%PATH%;c:\db\build_windows
Then, in a shell of your choice enter the following commands:
1.

cd build_windows

run d:\tcl\bin\tclsh85.exe, or the equivalent name of the Tcl shell for your system.
You should get a "%" prompt.

% source ../test/tcl/test.tcl
If no errors occur, you should get a "%" prompt.

You are now ready to run tests in the test suite; see Running the test suite for more
information.

Building the software needed by the SQL tests

The SQL test suite must be run against a Debug version of Berkeley DB, so you need a Debug
version of the Tcl libraries. This involves building Tcl from its source. See the Tcl sources for
more information. Then build the Tcl API - see Building the Tcl API (page 40) for details.

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Before building for SQL tests, build the db_tcl and db_sql_testfixture projects. This requires
Tcl 8.5 or above. If you are using a later version of Tcl, edit the Tcl library that db_tcl and
db_sql_testfixture link to.
To do this right click the db_tcl/db_sql_testfixture project, select Properties -> Configuration
Properties -> Linker -> Input -> Additional Dependencies and edit the Tcl library, tcl85.lib, to
match the version you are using.
Building the db_sql_testfixture project builds the testfixture.exe program in ../
build_windows/Win32/Debug. It also builds the projects db and db_sql, on which it depends.
Visual Studio 2005 or newer
To build for testing, perform the following steps:
1.

Open the Berkeley DB solution.

Ensure that the target configuration is Debug.

Right click the db_tcl project in the Solution Explorer, and select Build.

Right click the db_sql_testfixture project in the Solution Explorer, and select Build.

To test extensions, specify the following in the Preprocessor Definitions of the

db_sql_testfixture project:
SQLITE_ENABLE_FTS3 to enable the full text search layer
SQLITE_ENABLE_RTREE to enable the R-Tree layer

Windows notes
If a system memory environment is closed by all processes, subsequent attempts to open
it will return an error. To successfully open a transactional environment in this state,
recovery must be run by the next process to open the environment. For non-transactional
environments, applications should remove the existing environment and then create a new
database environment.

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Berkeley DB does not support the Windows XP, Windows 2003 or earlier Windows
platforms.

On Windows, system paging file memory is freed on last close. For this reason, multiple
processes sharing a database environment created using the DB_SYSTEM_MEM flag must
arrange for at least one process to always have the environment open, or alternatively
that any process joining the environment be prepared to re-create it.

When using the DB_SYSTEM_MEM flag, Berkeley DB shared regions are created without
ACLs, which means that the regions are only accessible to a single user. If wider sharing
is appropriate (for example, both user applications and Windows/NT service applications
need to access the Berkeley DB regions), the Berkeley DB code will need to be modified
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the DB_SYSTEM_MEM flag, filesystem-backed regions will be created instead, and the
permissions on those files may be directly specified through the DB_ENV->open() method.
4.

Applications that operate on wide character strings can use the Windows function
WideCharToMultiByte with the code page CP_UTF8 to convert paths to the form expected
by Berkeley DB. Internally, Berkeley DB calls MultiByteToWideChar on paths before calling
Windows functions.

Various Berkeley DB methods take a mode argument, which is intended to specify the
underlying file permissions for created files. Berkeley DB currently ignores this argument
on Windows systems.
It would be possible to construct a set of security attributes to pass to CreateFile that
accurately represents the mode. In the worst case, this would involve looking up user and
all group names, and creating an entry for each. Alternatively, we could call the _chmod
(partial emulation) function after file creation, although this leaves us with an obvious
race.
Practically speaking, however, these efforts would be largely meaningless on a FAT file
system, which only has a "readable" and "writable" flag, applying to all users.

Windows FAQ
1.

My Win* C/C++ application crashes in the Berkeley DB library when Berkeley DB calls
fprintf (or some other standard C library function).
You should be using the "Debug Multithreaded DLL" compiler option in your application
when you link with the build_windows\Debug\libdb60d.lib library (this .lib file is actually
a stub for libdb60d.DLL). To check this setting in Visual C++, choose the Project/Settings
menu item and select Code Generation under the tab marked C/C++; and see the box
marked Use runtime library. This should be set to Debug Multithreaded DLL. If your
application is linked against the static library, build_windows\Debug\libdb60sd.lib; then,
you will want to set Use runtime library to Debug Multithreaded.
Setting this option incorrectly can cause multiple versions of the standard libraries to be
linked into your application (one on behalf of your application, and onle on behalf of the
Berkeley DB library). That violates assumptions made by these libraries, and traps can
result.
Also, using different Visual Studio compilers in the application and libraries can lead to a
crash. So rebuild the application with the same Visual C++ version as that of the library.

Why are the build options for DB_DLL marked as "Use MFC in a Shared DLL"? Does
Berkeley DB use MFC?
Berkeley DB does not use MFC at all. It does however, call malloc and free and other
facilities provided by the Microsoft C runtime library. We found in our work that many
applications and libraries are built assuming MFC, and specifying this for Berkeley DB
solves various interoperation issues, and guarantees that the right runtime libraries are
selected. Note that because we do not use MFC facilities, the MFC library DLL is not
marked as a dependency for libdb.dll, but the appropriate Microsoft C runtime is.

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How can I build Berkeley DB for MinGW?

Follow the instructions in Building for UNIX/POSIX (page 55), and specify the --enablemingw option to the configuration script. This configuration option currently only builds
static versions of the library, it does not yet build a DLL version of the library, and file
sizes are limited to 2GB (2^32 bytes.)

How can I build a Berkeley DB for Windows 98/ME?

Windows 98/ME is no longer supported by Berkeley DB. The following is therefore only of
interest to historical users of Berkeley DB.
By default on Windows, Berkeley DB supports internationalized filenames by treating all
directory paths and filenames passed to Berkeley DB methods as UTF-8 encoded strings.
All paths are internally converted to wide character strings and passed to the wide
character variants of Windows system calls.
This allows applications to create and open databases with names that cannot be
represented with ASCII names while maintaining compatibility with applications that work
purely with ASCII paths.
Windows 98 and ME do not support Unicode paths directly. To build for those versions of
Windows, either:
Follow the instructions at Microsoft's web site.
Open the workspace or solution file with Visual Studio. Then open the Project
properties/settings section for the project you need to build (at least db_dll). In the C/
C++->Preprocessor->Preprocessor Definitions section, remove _UNICODE and UNICODE
entries. Add in an entry of _MBCS. Build the project as normal.
The ASCII builds will also work on newer versions of Windows, but will not translate paths
to wide character strings.

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Mobile
Building for Windows Mobile
This page contains general instructions on building Berkeley DB for Windows Mobile platforms
using specific compilers.
The build_wince directory in the Berkeley DB distribution contains project files for Microsoft
Visual 2005 with the Mobile SDK installed:
Project File

Description

Berkeley_DB.sln

Visual Studio 2005 solution

*.vcproj

Visual Studio 2005 project files

These project files can be used to build Berkeley DB for the Windows Mobile platform.

Building Berkeley DB for Windows Mobile

Visual Studio 2005
1.

Choose File -> Open Workspace.... Navigate to the build_wince directory, select
Berkeley_DB and click Open.

Select the desired target platform from the platform drop-down menu.

Build the desired projects.

Build results
The results of your build will be placed in any one of the following Berkeley DB subdirectories,
depending on the configuration that you chose:
build_wince\(Platform)\Debug
build_wince\(Platform)\Release
build_wince\(Platform)\Debug_static
build_wince\(Platform)\Release_static
When building your application during development, you must link against
libdb_small61sd.lib or against libdb_sql61sd.lib for SQL features. You can also build
using a release version of the Berkeley DB libraries and tools, which will be placed in the
build_wince\(Platform)\Release_static directory. You must add the build_wince
directory to the list of include directories of your application's project, or copy the Berkeley
DB include files to a location in your Visual Studio include path.

Changing Build Configuration Type

This section contains information on how to change between a dynamic library (.dll) and static
library (.lib). The library projects and their default output and configuration in the Release
build is as follows:

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Project

Default Output

Default Configuration

db_small_static

libdb_small61s.lib

Static Library

db_static

libdb61s.lib

Static Library

db_sql

libdb_sql61.dll

Dynamic Library

db_sql_static

libdb_sql61s.lib

Static Library

To change a project configuration type in Visual Studio 2005, select a project and do the
following:
1.

Choose Project->Properties and navigate to Configuration Properties.

Under Project Defaults, change the Configuration Type to your desired type.

Note: After this change, the output file names change to the Visual Studio 2005 defaults based
on the project name.

Building Berkeley DB for different target platforms

There are many possible target CPU architectures for a Windows Mobile application. This
section outlines the process required to add a new target architecture to the project files
supplied with Berkeley DB.
The Visual Studio 2005 project files will by default build for Pocket PC 2003 and Smartphone
2003, and Windows Mobile 6.5.3 Professional. If you want to build for other platforms such as
Windows Mobile 6.0, 6.1, or 6.5, you need to follow the steps provided in this section.
Different target architectures are available in different Platform SDK or DTK downloads from
Microsoft. The appropriate SDK must be installed for your mobile architecture before you can
build for that platform. You can find the downloads at the Microsoft Developer Center page.
Visual Studio 2005

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Choose File -> Open Workspace.... Navigate to the build_wince directory, select
Berkeley_DB and click Open.

From the Solution explorer window, right-click the Solution Berkeley_DB and select
Configuration manager...

In the Active solution platform: drop down box select New...

From the Type or select the new platform drop-down box, select a configuration
from the ones available and click OK.

Click Close from the Configuration Manager dialog box.

The target platform drop-down now contains the platform just added.

Build as per the instructions given at the beginning of this chapter.

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BDB SQL Notes

After building for a different platform, change the deployment remote directory for the
db_sql project to run the wce_sql sample application:
1.

Select db_sql from the Solution explorer window.

Choose Project->Properties and navigate to Configuration Properties.

Under Deployment, change the remote directory to %CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES%\wce_sql.

Windows Mobile notes

The C++ API is not supported on Windows Mobile. The file stream and exception handling
functionality provided by the Berkeley DB C++ API are not supported by Windows Mobile.
It is possible to build a C++ application against the Berkeley DB C API.

The Java API is not currently supported on Windows Mobile.

Tcl support is not currently supported on Windows Mobile.

Berkeley DB is shipped with support for the Pocket PC 2003 and Smartphone 2003 target
platforms. It is possible to build Berkeley DB for different target platforms using Visual
Studio's Configuration Manager.
This can be done using the following steps:
a.

Open Visual Studio, and load the build_wince/Berkeley_DB.sln solution file.

Select the Build->Configuration Manager... menu item.

In the Active Solution Platform... dropdown, select New...

Select the desired target platform (you must have the desired Microsoft Platform SDK
installed for it to appear in the list). Choose to copy settings from either the Pocket
PC 2003 or Smartphone 2003 platforms.

Before building the wce_tpcb sample application for the new platform, you will need to
complete the following steps:
a.

Open the project properties page for wce_tpcb. Do this by: Right click wce_tpcb in
the Solution Explorer then select Properties

Select Configuration Properties->Linker->Input

Remove secchk.lib and crtti.lib from the Additional Dependencies field.

NOTE: These steps are based on Visual Studio 2005, and might vary slightly depending on
which version of Visual Studio being used.

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What if my Windows Mobile device does not support SetFilePointer and/or

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You can manually disable the truncate functionality from the build.
Do that by opening the db-X.X.X/build_wince/db_config.h file, and change the line
that reads
#define HAVE_FTRUCATE 1
to read
#undef HAVE_FTRUNCATE
Making this change disables DB->compact() for btree databases.
2.

Why doesn't automatic log archiving work?

The Windows Mobile platform does not have a concept of a working directory. This means
that the DB_ARCH_REMOVE and DB_ARCH_ABS flags do not work properly within Windows
Mobile, because they rely on having a working directory.
To work around this issue, you can call log_archive with the DB_ARCH_LOG flag, the list of
returned file handles will not contain absolute paths. Your application can take this list of
files, construct absolute paths, and delete the files.

Does Berkeley DB support Windows Mobile?

Yes.
Berkeley DB relies on a subset of the Windows API, and some standard C library APIs.
These are provided by Windows CE. Windows Mobile is built "on top" of Windows CE.

Does Berkeley DB support Windows CE?

Yes.
Berkeley DB relies on a subset of the Windows API, and some standard C library APIs.
These are provided by Windows CE.

Does Berkeley DB support Windows Embedded Compact 7?

Yes.
Starting from release 12.1.6.1, it is possible to build Berkeley DB on Windows Embedded
Compact 7. Below are tips for the build process:
a.

Compile error at line 146 in stdlib.h

This is a known bug for the Windows Embedded Compact 7 SDK. A workaround is to
change the line 146 in stdlib.h to read:
__checkReturn __bcount(_Size) void * __cdecl _alloca(__in size_t
_Size);

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error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _localtime_s referenced in function

_osLocaltime
This link error is caused by the fact that the Windows Embedded Compact 7 runtime
used to link Berkeley DB does not provide the localtime_s() function. A workaround is
to add
HAVE_LOCALTIME_S=0
to the proprocessor definitions of the db_sql project. This can be done by right
clicking the db_sql project, select Properties->Configuration Properties->C/C++>Preprocessor->Proprocessor Definitions, and append
HAVE_LOCALTIME_S=0
at the end of the list.

error LNK1221: a subsystem can't be inferred and must be defined

This link error happens on Visual Studio 2008, because it cannot understand
the subsystem configured for Visual Studio 2005. To fix this error, right
click the project reporting this link error, select Properties->Configuration
Properties-> Linker->System->SubSystem, and change the value to WindowsCE (/
SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWSCE).

warning C4996: 'xxx': This function or variable may be unsafe.

Used within the Berkeley DB source tree, these functions are actually safe. You can
safely ignore these warnings.

What platforms are the supplied sample applications designed for?

The supplied sample applications were developed for the Pocket PC 2003 emulator. They
are known to work on real pocket PC devices and later versions of the emulator as well.
The supplied applications are not designed to work with Smartphone devices. The screen
size and input mechanisms are not compatible.

I see a file mapping error when opening a Berkeley DB environment or database. What
is wrong?
The default behavior of Berkeley DB is to use memory mapped files in the environment.
Windows Mobile does not allow memory mapped files to be created on flash storage.
There are two workarounds:

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Configure the Berkeley DB environment not to use memory mapped files. The options
are discussed in detail in Shared memory region.

Create the Berkeley DB environment on non-flash storage. It is possible to store

database and log files in a different location to using the DB_ENV->add_data_dir()
and DB_ENV->set_lg_dir() APIs.
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Building for Windows Embedded Compact 7

This page contains general instructions on building Berkeley DB for Windows Embedded
Compact 7 platforms using specific compilers.
The build_wince directory in the Berkeley DB distribution contains project files for Microsoft
Visual 2008 with the Windows Embedded Compact 7 installed:
Project File

Description

Berkeley_DB.sln

Visual Studio 2008 solution

*.vcproj

Visual Studio 2008 project files

These project files can be used to build Berkeley DB for the Windows Embedded Compact 7
platform.

Building Berkeley DB for Windows Embedded Compact 7

Visual Studio 2008
1.

Install Windows Embedded Compact 7, and add it to target platforms.

Choose File -> Open Project/Solution.... Navigate to the build_wince directory, select
Berkeley_DB and click Open. Wait for the project conversion to finish.

Select the desired target platform from the platform drop-down menu.

Build the desired projects.

Changing Build Configuration Type

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Project

Default Output

Default Configuration

db_small

libdb_small61s.lib

Static Library

libdb61s.lib

Static Library

db_sql

libdb_sql61.dll

Dynamic Library

To change a project configuration type in Visual Studio 2008, select a project and do the
following:
1.

Choose Project->Properties and navigate to Configuration Properties.

Under Project Defaults, change the Configuration Type to your desired type.

Note: After this change, the output file names change to the Visual Studio 2008 defaults based
on the project name.

Troubleshooting Common Build Errors

Compile error at line 146 in stdlib.h

This is a known bug for the Windows Embedded Compact 7 SDK. A workaround is to
change the line 146 in stdlib.h to read:
__checkReturn __bcount(_Size) void * __cdecl _alloca(__in size_t
_Size);

error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _localtime_s referenced in function

_osLocaltime
This link error is caused by the fact that the Windows Embedded Compact 7 runtime used
to link Berkeley DB does not provide the localtime_s() function. A workaround is to add
HAVE_LOCALTIME_S=0
to the proprocessor definitions of the db_sql project. This can be done by right click
the db_sql project, select Properties->Configuration Properties->C/C++->Preprocessor>Proprocessor Definitions, and append
HAVE_LOCALTIME_S=0
at the end of the list.

error LNK1221: a subsystem can't be inferred and must be defined

This link error happens on Visual Studio 2008, because it cannot understand the subsystem
configured for Visual Studio 2005. To fix this error, right click the project reporting this
link error, select Properties->Configuration Properties-> Linker->System->SubSystem, and
change the value to WindowsCE (/SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWSCE).

warning C4996: 'xxx': This function or variable may be unsafe.

Used within the Berkeley DB source tree, these functions are actually safe. You can safely
ignore these warnings.

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Building for UNIX/POSIX
The Berkeley DB distribution builds up to six separate libraries: the base C API Berkeley DB
library and the optional C++, Java, Tcl, SQL, and JDBC API libraries. For portability reasons,
each library is standalone and contains the full Berkeley DB support necessary to build
applications; that is, the C++ API Berkeley DB library does not require any other Berkeley DB
libraries to build and run C++ applications.
Building for Linux, Apple iOS (known as iPhone OS previously), Mac OS X or the QNX Neutrino
release is the same as building for a conventional UNIX platform.
The Berkeley DB distribution uses the Free Software Foundation's autoconf and libtool tools
to build on UNIX platforms. In general, the standard configuration and installation options for
these tools apply to the Berkeley DB distribution.
To perform a standard UNIX build of Berkeley DB, change to the build_unix directory and then
enter the following two commands:
../dist/configure
make
This will build the Berkeley DB library.
To install the Berkeley DB library, enter the following command:
make install
To rebuild Berkeley DB, enter:
make clean
make
If you change your mind about how Berkeley DB is to be configured, you must start from
scratch by entering the following command:
make realclean
../dist/configure
make
To uninstall Berkeley DB, enter:
make uninstall
To build multiple UNIX versions of Berkeley DB in the same source tree, create a new directory
at the same level as the build_unix directory, and then configure and build in that directory as
described previously.

Building the Berkeley DB SQL Interface

To perform a standard UNIX build of the Berkeley DB SQL interface, go to the build_unix
directory and then enter the following two commands:

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../dist/configure --enable-sql
make
This creates a library, libdb_sql, and a command line tool, dbsql. You can create and
manipulate SQL databases using the dbsql shell.
You can optionally provide the --enable-sql_compat argument to the configure script.
In addition to creating libdb_sql and dbsql this causes a thin wrapper library called
libsqlite3 and a command line tool called sqlite3 to be built. This library can be used as
a drop-in replacement for SQLite. The sqlite3 command line tool is identical to the dbsql
executable but is named so that existing scripts for SQLite can easily work with Berkeley DB.
../dist/configure --enable-sql_compat
make
There are several arguments you can specify when configuring the Berkeley DB SQL Interface.
See Configuring the SQL Interface (page 62) for more information.

-lippcpem64t -lpthread to LIBS

An example configuration command for IPP encryption is as follows:
../dist/configure -with-cryptography=ipp
CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/intel/ipp/6.1.3.055/em64t/include"
LDFLAGS="-L/opt/intel/ipp/6.1.3.055/em64t/sharedlib"
LIBS="-lippcpem64t -lpthread"
See the Intel Documentation for specific instructions on configuring environment variables.
Note: The --with-cryptography=ipp argument works only on Linux.
--with-mutex=MUTEX
To force Berkeley DB to use a specific mutex implementation, configure with --withmutex=MUTEX, where MUTEX is the mutex implementation you want. For example, --withmutex=x86/gcc-assembly will configure Berkeley DB to use the x86 GNU gcc compiler based
test-and-set assembly mutexes. This is rarely necessary and should be done only when the
default configuration selects the wrong mutex implementation. A list of available mutex
implementations can be found in the distribution file dist/aclocal/mutex.m4.
--with-tcl=DIR
To build the Berkeley DB Tcl API, enter --with-tcl=DIR, replacing DIR with the directory
in which the Tcl tclConfig.sh file may be found. See Loading Berkeley DB with Tcl for
information on sites from which you can download Tcl and which Tcl versions are compatible
with Berkeley DB. To build Tcl, you must also build with shared libraries.
--with-uniquename=NAME
To build Berkeley DB with unique symbol names (in order to avoid conflicts with other
application modules or libraries), enter --with-uniquename=NAME, replacing NAME with
a string that to be appended to every Berkeley DB symbol. If "=NAME" is not specified,
a default value of "_MAJORMINOR" is used, where MAJORMINOR is the major and minor
release numbers of the Berkeley DB release. See Building with multiple versions of Berkeley
DB (page 9) for more information.

Configuring the SQL Interface

There are a set of options you can provide to configure in order to control how the Berkeley
DB SQL interface is built. These configuration options include:
--disable-log-checksum
Disables checksums in log records. This provides a boost to performance at the risk of
log files having undetectable corruption that could prevent proper data recovery in
case of database corruption.
Note that while this option is meant for use with the SQL interface, it will also disable
checksum for the non-SQL interfaces.

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--enable-sql
Causes the dbsql command line interpreter to be built. Along with dbsql, this
argument also builds the libdb_sqlXX.{so|la} library, a C API library that mirrors the
SQLite C API.
--enable-sql_compat
Causes the sqlite3 command line tool to be built. This tool is identical to the dbsql
command line tool, except that it has the same name as the command line tool that
comes with standard SQLite.
In addition, the libsqlite3.{so|la} C API library is built if this option is specified. This
library is identical to the libdb_sqlXX.{so|la} library that is normally built for Berkeley
DB's sql interface, except that it has the same name as the library which is built for
standard SQLite.

This section describes how to download, build, and run sample programs using the built JDBC
driver.
Downloading JDBC Sample Code
The download link for JDBC sample code is available on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN)
page. You can identify the link by the "JDBC programming examples from all three editions
(ZIP format)" text beside it.
Modifying Sample Code
Before running the example code, do the following:
1.

Unzip the file containing the sample code to a new directory (for example, jdbc_ex).

Substitute jdbc:sqlite:/<db-file-name> for the generic JDBC URL that appears in the
code. That is, put jdbc:sqlite:/<db-file-name> between the quotation marks in the
line:
String url = "jdbc:mySubprotocol:myDataSource";
Note: The <db-file-name> can either be an absolute path name like "jdbc:sqlite://
jdbc_ex_db/myDataSource", or a relative path-file-name like "jdbc:sqlite:/../
jdbc_ex_db/myDataSource", or a file name, like "jdbc:sqlite:/myDataSource", in
which case the database file will be stored at the current directory. Note that all path
arguments require a leading slash, even in the case of relative paths or a database in the
local directory. Please refer to the above examples.

Substitute SQLite.JDBCDriver for myDriver.ClassName in the line:

Class.forName("myDriver.ClassName");

Optionally substitute the username and password you use for your database in the
following: "myLogin", "myPassword".

If your JDK version is above 1.5, change the variable name enum in OutputApplet.java
to some other variable name because, as of JDK release 5 enum is a keyword and can not
be used as an identifier.

Building and Running the JDBC Sample code

See Building the JDBC Driver (page 65) for instructions on building the JDBC driver.
To build and run the JDBC examples do the following:
1.

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In the jdbc_ex directory, run the following commands:

$ javac -classpath ./sqlite.jar *.java
$ java -classpath .:sqlite.jar -Djava.library.path=. \
<ClassName, eg. CreateCoffees>

After you run the CreateCoffees example, use the dbsql executable to open the
myDataSource database file and check if the table COFFEES has been successfully created
in the database.
$ dbsql myDataSourcedbsql> .tables
COFFEES
dbsql> .dump
PRAGMA foreign_keys=OFF;
BEGIN TRANSACTION;
CREATE TABLE COFFEES (COF_NAME varchar(32),\
SUP_ID int, PRICE float, SALES int, TOTAL int);
COMMIT;
dbsql>

Repeat step 3 to run other examples.

Note: Some examples, such as AutoGenKeys, are not yet supported by BDB JDBC driver.
The SQLFeatureNotSupportedException is displayed for those unsupported examples.

Building the ODBC Driver

This section describes how to build the ODBC driver.
Configuring Your System
To configure your system prior to building the ODBC driver, do the following:
1.

Download and install the latest unixODBC if ODBC is not already installed on your system.

Configure the ODBC server to work with SQLite databases. Follow these instructions from
Christian Werner.

Building the Library

To build the library, do the following:
$
$
$
$
$

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CFLAGS="-fPIC" ../dist/configure --enable-sql_compat --disable-shared
make
cd ../lang/sql/odbc
CFLAGS="-D_HAVE_SQLITE_CONFIG_H \
-I../../../build_unix -I../../../build_unix/sql \
-I../../../src/dbinc -I../sqlite/src" \
LDFLAGS="../../../build_unix/libdb-6.1.a" \
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$ make
The libsqlite3odbc.so library containing a statically linked version of Berkeley DB SQL is
now built.
NOTE: The final make command above is known to generate a warning when using GCC. The
warning states: Warning: Linking the shared library libsqlite3odbc.la against
the static library ../../build_unix/libdb-6.1.a is not portable!. It is generally
safe to ignore the warning when using the generated library.
Testing the ODBC Driver
The steps to verify that the installed driver works are as follows:
1.

Alter the /etc/odbcinst.ini and ~/.odbc.ini configuration files to refer to the

libsqlite3odbc.so file built above.

Create a data source, and launch a data source viewer application by doing the following:
$ mkdir ~/databases
$ cd ~/databases
$ /path/to/Berkeley DB/build_unix/sqlite3 mytest.db
dbsql> CREATE TABLE t1(x);
dbsql> .quit
$ DataManager
The final step opens a GUI application that displays ODBC data sources on a system. You
should be able to find the mytest.db data source just created.

Building the BFILE extension

The BFILE extension allows you to store binary files outside of the database, but still operate
upon them as if they were stored within the database. To enable this extension, use the -enable-load-extension configuration flag. For example:
$ cd <db>/build_unix
$ export DBSQL_DIR=$PWD/../install
$ ../dist/configure --enable-sql --enable-load-extension \
--prefix=$DBSQL_DIR && make && make install
$ cd ../lang/sql/sqlite/ext/bfile/build
$ make && make install
BFILE extensions are only supported for Unix platforms.
Note that the extension support has two interfaces: SQL expressions and a C-functions API. By
default, the SQL expressions are built when you use --enable-load_extension. To use the Cfunctions API, edit <db>/lang/sql/ext/bfile/build/Makefile and set ENABLE_BFILE_CAPI
to 1.
Once you have enabled the extension and built the library, you can run the included example:
$ cd lang/sql/sqlite/ext/bfile/build

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--exec_prefix

$(prefix)

--bindir

$(exec_prefix)/bin

--includedir

$(prefix)/include

--libdir

$(exec_prefix)/lib

docdir

$(prefix)/docs

Files

Default location

include files

$(includedir)

libraries

$(libdir)

utilities

$(bindir)

the tclsh utility included in the Tcl installation with which Berkeley DB was configured to run
the test suite, and further assumes that the test suite will be run with the libraries prebuilt in
the Berkeley DB build directory. If either of these assumptions are incorrect, you will need to
edit the include.tcl file and change the following line to correctly specify the full path to
the version of tclsh with which you are going to run the test suite:
set tclsh_path ...
You may also need to change the following line to correctly specify the path from the
directory where you are running the test suite to the location of the Berkeley DB Tcl library
you built:
set test_path ...
It may not be necessary that this be a full path if you have configured your system's shared
library mechanisms to search the directory where you built or installed the Tcl library.
All Berkeley DB tests are run from within tclsh. After starting tclsh, you must source the file
test.tcl in the test directory. For example, if you built in the build_unix directory of the
distribution, this would be done using the following command:
% source ../test/tcl/test.tcl
If no errors occur, you should get a "%" prompt.
You are now ready to run tests in the test suite; see Running the test suite for more
information.

Building SQL Test Suite on Unix

The Berkeley DB SQL interface test suite is built if you specify --enable-test and --enable-sql
as arguments, when configuring Berkeley DB. The test suite also requires that you build the
Berkeley DB Tcl API.
../dist/configure --enable-sql --enable-test --with-tcl=/usr/lib
This builds the testfixture project in ../build_unix/sql.
To enable extensions like full text search layer and R-Tree layer in the SQL test suite,
configure with --enable-amalgamation.

Architecture independent FAQ

I have gcc installed, but configure fails to find it.

Berkeley DB defaults to using the native C compiler if none is specified. That is usually
"cc", but some platforms require a different compiler to build multithreaded code. To
configure Berkeley DB to build with gcc, run configure as follows:
env CC=gcc ../dist/configure ...

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symbol __cmpdi2: referenced symbol not found
Berkeley DB often uses 64-bit integral types on systems supporting large files, and gcc
performs operations on those types by calling library functions. These unreferenced
symbol errors are usually caused by linking an application by calling "ld" rather than by
calling "gcc": gcc will link in libgcc.a and will resolve the symbols. If that does not help,
another possible workaround is to reconfigure Berkeley DB using the --disable-largefile
configuration option and then rebuild.
3.

My C++ program traps during a failure in a DB call on my gcc-based system.

We believe there are some severe bugs in the implementation of exceptions for some
gcc compilers. Exceptions require some interaction between compiler, assembler, and
runtime libraries. We're not sure exactly what is at fault, but one failing combination is
gcc 2.7.2.3 running on SuSE Linux 6.0. The problem on this system can be seen with a
rather simple test case of an exception thrown from a shared library and caught in the
main program.
A variation of this problem seems to occur on AIX, although we believe it does not
necessarily involve shared libraries on that platform.
If you see a trap that occurs when an exception might be thrown by the Berkeley DB
runtime, we suggest that you use static libraries instead of shared libraries. See the
documentation for configuration. If this doesn't work and you have a choice of compilers,
try using a more recent gcc- or a non-gcc based compiler to build Berkeley DB.
Finally, you can disable the use of exceptions in the C++ runtime for Berkeley DB by using
the DB_CXX_NO_EXCEPTIONS flag with the DbEnv or Db constructors. When this flag is on,
all C++ methods fail by returning an error code rather than throwing an exception.

I get unexpected results and database corruption when running threaded programs.
I get error messages that mutex (for example, pthread_mutex_XXX or mutex_XXX)
functions are undefined when linking applications with Berkeley DB.
On some architectures, the Berkeley DB library uses the ISO POSIX standard pthreads
and UNIX International (UI) threads interfaces for underlying mutex support; Solaris is an
example. You can specify compilers or compiler flags, or link with the appropriate thread
library when loading your application to resolve the undefined references:
cc ... -lpthread ...
cc ... -lthread ...
xlc_r ...
cc ... -mt ...
See the appropriate architecture-specific Reference Guide pages for more information.
On systems where more than one type of mutex is available, it may be necessary for
applications to use the same threads package from which Berkeley DB draws its mutexes.
For example, if Berkeley DB was built to use the POSIX pthreads mutex calls for mutex

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support, the application may need to be written to use the POSIX pthreads interfaces
for its threading model. This is only conjecture at this time, and although we know of no
systems that actually have this requirement, it's not unlikely that some exist.
In a few cases, Berkeley DB can be configured to use specific underlying mutex interfaces.
You can use the --enable-posixmutexes and --enable-uimutexes configuration options to
specify the POSIX and Unix International (UI) threads packages. This should not, however,
be necessary in most cases.
In some cases, it is vitally important to make sure that you load the correct library.
For example, on Solaris systems, there are POSIX pthread interfaces in the C library, so
applications can link Berkeley DB using only C library and not see any undefined symbols.
However, the C library POSIX pthread mutex support is insufficient for Berkeley DB, and
Berkeley DB cannot detect that fact. Similar errors can arise when applications (for
example, tclsh) use dlopen to dynamically load Berkeley DB as a library.
If you are seeing problems in this area after you confirm that you're linking with the
correct libraries, there are two other things you can try. First, if your platform supports
interlibrary dependencies, we recommend that you change the Berkeley DB Makefile to
specify the appropriate threads library when creating the Berkeley DB shared library, as
an interlibrary dependency. Second, if your application is using dlopen to dynamically
load Berkeley DB, specify the appropriate thread library on the link line when you load
the application itself.
5.

I get core dumps when running programs that fork children.

Berkeley DB handles should not be shared across process forks, each forked child should
acquire its own Berkeley DB handles.

I get reports of uninitialized memory reads and writes when running software analysis
tools (for example, Rational Software Corp.'s Purify tool).
For performance reasons, Berkeley DB does not write the unused portions of database
pages or fill in unused structure fields. To turn off these errors when running software
analysis tools, build with the --enable-umrw configuration option.

Berkeley DB programs or the test suite fail unexpectedly.

The Berkeley DB architecture does not support placing the shared memory regions on
remote filesystems -- for example, the Network File System (NFS) or the Andrew File
System (AFS). For this reason, the shared memory regions (normally located in the
database home directory) must reside on a local filesystem. See Shared memory region
for more information.
With respect to running the test suite, always check to make sure that TESTDIR is not on a
remote mounted filesystem.

The db_dump utility fails to build.

The db_dump185 utility is the utility that supports the conversion of Berkeley DB 1.85 and
earlier databases to current database formats. If the build errors look something like the

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following, it means the db.h include file being loaded is not a Berkeley DB 1.85 version
include file:
db_dump185.c: In function `main':
db_dump185.c:210: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer
without a cast
db_dump185.c:212: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer
without a cast
db_dump185.c:227: structure has no member named `seq'
db_dump185.c:227: `R_NEXT' undeclared (first use in this function)
If the build errors look something like the following, it means that the Berkeley DB 1.85
code was not found in the standard libraries:
cc -o db_dump185 db_dump185.o
ld:
Unresolved:
dbopen
To build the db_dump185 utility, the Berkeley DB version 1.85 code must already been
built and available on the system. If the Berkeley DB 1.85 header file is not found in a
standard place, or if the library is not part of the standard libraries used for loading, you
will need to edit your Makefile, and change the following lines:
DB185INC=
DB185LIB=
So that the system Berkeley DB 1.85 header file and library are found; for example:
DB185INC=/usr/local/include
DB185LIB=-ldb185

AIX
1.

I can't compile and run multithreaded applications.

Special compile-time flags are required when compiling threaded applications on AIX. If
you are compiling a threaded application, you must compile with the _THREAD_SAFE flag
and load with specific libraries; for example, "-lc_r". Specifying the compiler name with a
trailing "_r" usually performs the right actions for the system.
xlc_r ...
cc -D_THREAD_SAFE -lc_r ...
The Berkeley DB library will automatically build with the correct options.

I can't run using the DB_SYSTEM_MEM option to DB_ENV->open().

AIX 4.1 allows applications to map only 10 system shared memory segments. In AIX 4.3,
this has been raised to 256K segments, but only if you set the environment variable
"export EXTSHM=ON".

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On AIX 4.3.2 (or before) I see duplicate symbol warnings when building the C++ shared
library and when linking applications.
We are aware of some duplicate symbol warnings with this platform, but they do not
appear to affect the correct operation of applications.

On AIX 4.3.3 I see undefined symbols for DbEnv::set_error_stream,

Db::set_error_stream or DbEnv::verify when linking C++ applications. (These
undefined symbols also appear when building the Berkeley DB C++ example
applications).
By default, Berkeley DB is built with _LARGE_FILES set to 1 to support the creation of
"large" database files. However, this also affects how standard classes, like iostream, are
named internally. When building your application, use a "-D_LARGE_FILES=1" compilation
option, or insert "#define _LARGE_FILES 1" before any #include statements.

I can't create database files larger than 1GB on AIX.

If you're running on AIX 4.1 or earlier, try changing the source code for os/os_open.c to
always specify the O_LARGEFILE flag to the open(2) system call, and recompile Berkeley
DB from scratch.
Also, the documentation for the IBM Visual Age compiler states that it does not not
support the 64-bit filesystem APIs necessary for creating large files; the ibmcxx product
must be used instead. We have not heard whether the GNU gcc compiler supports the 64bit APIs or not.
Finally, to create large files under AIX, the filesystem has to be configured to support
large files and the system wide user hard-limit for file sizes has to be greater than 1GB.

I see errors about "open64" when building Berkeley DB applications.

System include files (most commonly fcntl.h) in some releases of AIX and Solaris redefine
"open" when large-file support is enabled for applications. This causes problems when
compiling applications because "open" is a method in the Berkeley DB APIs. To work
around this problem:

Avoid including the problematical system include files in source code files which also
include Berkeley DB include files and call into the Berkeley DB API.

Before building Berkeley DB, modify the generated include file db.h to itself include
the problematical system include files.

Turn off Berkeley DB large-file support by specifying the --disable-largefile

configuration option and rebuilding.

I see the error "Redeclaration of lseek64" when building Berkeley DB with the -enable-sql and --enable-test options.
In some releases of AIX, the system include files (most commonly unistd.h) redefine
lseek to lseek64 when large-file support is enabled even though lseek may have

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already been defined when the _LARGE_FILE_API macro is on. To work around this
problem, do either one of the following:
a.

Disable large-file support in Berkeley DB by specifying the --disable-largefile

configuration option and rebuilding.

Edit db.h manually after running the configure command, and remove the line that
includes unistd.h.

FreeBSD
1.

I can't compile and run multithreaded applications.

Special compile-time flags are required when compiling threaded applications on
FreeBSD. If you are compiling a threaded application, you must compile with the
_THREAD_SAFE and -pthread flags:
cc -D_THREAD_SAFE -pthread ...
The Berkeley DB library will automatically build with the correct options.

I see fsync and close system call failures when accessing databases or log files on NFSmounted filesystems.
Some FreeBSD releases are known to return ENOLCK from fsync and close calls on NFSmounted filesystems, even though the call has succeeded. The Berkeley DB code should
be modified to ignore ENOLCK errors, or no Berkeley DB files should be placed on NFSmounted filesystems on these systems.

Apple iOS (iPhone OS)

Building Berkeley DB in Apple iOS (known as iPhone OS previously) is the same as building for a
conventional UNIX platform. This section lists the commands for building Berkeley DB in both
the iPhone simulator (a software simulator included in the iPhone SDK that you can use to test
your application without using the iPhone/iPod Touch) and the iPhone device.
Prior to building BDB in an iPhone simulator/iPhone device, set the required environment
variables for iOS (iPhone OS). For a simulator/iPhone version 4.2 or older, set the LDFLAGS
variable as follows:
export LDFLAGS="-L$SDKROOT/usr/lib/"
Otherwise, set LDFLAGS as follows:
export LDFLAGS="-L$SDKROOT/usr/lib/system/"
The steps to build BDB in an iPhone simulator are as follows:
export CFLAGS="-arch i386 -pipe -no-cpp-precomp --sysroot=$SDKROOT"
export CXXFLAGS="-arch i386 -pipe -no-cpp-precomp --sysroot=$SDKROOT"
cd $BDB_HOME/build_unix
../dist/configure --host=i386-apple-darwin\
--prefix=$SDKROOT ...

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make
The steps to build BDB in an iPhone device are as follows:
export CFLAGS="-arch armv6 -pipe -Os -gdwarf-2\
-no-cpp-precomp -mthumb -isysroot $SDKROOT "
export CXXFLAGS="-arch armv6 -pipe -Os -gdwarf-2\
-no-cpp-precomp -mthumb -isysroot $SDKROOT "
cd $BDB_HOME/build_unix
../dist/configure --host=arm-apple-darwin9\
--prefix=$SDKROOT ...
make
Both sets of commands create the BDB dynamic library - libdb-6.1.dylib. To build the static
library, libdb-6.1.a, add the --enable-shared=no option while configuring.

IRIX
1.

I can't compile and run multithreaded applications.

Special compile-time flags are required when compiling threaded applications on IRIX. If
you are compiling a threaded application, you must compile with the _SGI_MP_SOURCE
flag:
cc -D_SGI_MP_SOURCE ...
The Berkeley DB library will automatically build with the correct options.

Linux
1.

I can't compile and run multithreaded applications.

Special compile-time flags are required when compiling threaded applications on Linux. If
you are compiling a threaded application, you must compile with the _REENTRANT flag:
cc -D_REENTRANT ...
The Berkeley DB library will automatically build with the correct options.

I see database corruption when accessing databases.

Some Linux filesystems do not support POSIX filesystem semantics. Specifically, ext2
and early releases of ReiserFS, and ext3 in some configurations, do not support "ordered
data mode" and may insert random data into database or log files when systems crash.
Berkeley DB files should not be placed on a filesystem that does not support, or is not
configured to support, POSIX semantics.

What scheduler should I use?

In some Linux kernels you can select schedulers, and the default is the "anticipatory"
scheduler. We recommend not using the "anticipatory" scheduler for transaction
processing workloads.

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Mac OS X
1.

When trying to link multiple Berkeley DB language interfaces (for example, Tcl, C++,
Java, Python) into a single process, I get "multiple definitions" errors from dyld.
To fix this problem, set the environment variable MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET to 10.3
(or your current version of OS X), and reconfigure and rebuild Berkeley DB from scratch.
See the OS X ld(1) and dyld(1) man pages for information about how OS X handles symbol
namespaces, as well as undefined and multiply-defined symbols.

When trying to use system-backed shared memory on OS X I see failures about "too
many open files".
The default number of shared memory segments on OS X is too low. To fix this problem,
create a file named /etc/sysctl.conf, containing the variable assignments:
kern.sysv.shmmax=134217728
kern.sysv.shmmin=1
kern.sysv.shmmni=32
kern.sysv.shmseg=32
kern.sysv.shmall=1024
and then reboot the system.
Check the version of OS X carefully because some versions require all five parameters to
be set.
The SHMMAX variable should be set to a value that is an exact multiple of 4096. Some
versions of OS X ignore the value if it is not an exact multiple.
Please check and verify with the OS X documentation on the proper setting of these
parameters. In some cases a reboot is necessary and in others it is possible to change
them dynamically using sysctl.
The /etc/sysctl.conf file exists in OS X 10.3.9 and later. If you are running a version
of OS X previous to 10.3.x, edit the /etc/rc file and change the values in the following
commands:
sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=134217728
sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmseg=32
and then reboot the system.
OS X system updates will overwrite /etc/rc so any changes to the file must be redone
after sytem updates.

QNX
1.

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Berkeley DB has been ported to the QNX Neutrino technology which is commonly referred
to as QNX RTP (Real-Time Platform). Berkeley DB has not been ported to earlier versions
of QNX, such as QNX 4.25.
2.

Building Berkeley DB shared libraries fails.

The /bin/sh utility distributed with some QNX releases drops core when running the
GNU libtool script (which is used to build Berkeley DB shared libraries). There are two
workarounds for this problem: First, only build static libraries. You can disable building
shared libraries by specifying the configuration flag when configuring Berkeley DB.
Second, build Berkeley DB using an alternate shell. QNX distributions include an
accessories disk with additional tools. One of the included tools is the GNU bash shell,
which is able to run the libtool script. To build Berkeley DB using an alternate shell, move
/bin/sh aside, link or copy the alternate shell into that location, configure, build and
install Berkeley DB, and then replace the original shell utility.

Are there any QNX filesystem issues?

Berkeley DB generates temporary files for use in transactionally protected file system
operations. Due to the filename length limit of 48 characters in the QNX filesystem,
applications that are using transactions should specify a database name that is at most 43
characters.

What are the implications of QNX's requirement to use shm_open(2) in order to use
mmap(2)?
QNX requires that files mapped with mmap(2) be opened using shm_open(2). There are
other places in addition to the environment shared memory regions, where Berkeley DB
tries to memory map files if it can.
The memory pool subsystem normally attempts to use mmap(2) even when using private
memory, as indicated by the DB_PRIVATE flag to DB_ENV->open(). In the case of QNX, if an
application is using private memory, Berkeley DB will not attempt to map the memory and
will instead use the local cache.

What are the implications of QNX's mutex implementation using microkernel

resources?
On QNX, the primitives implementing mutexes consume system resources. Therefore,
if an application unexpectedly fails, those resources could leak. Berkeley DB solves this
problem by always allocating mutexes in the persistent shared memory regions. Then, if
an application fails, running recovery or explicitly removing the database environment by
calling the DB_ENV->remove() method will allow Berkeley DB to release those previously
held mutex resources. If an application specifies the DB_PRIVATE flag (choosing not to use
persistent shared memory), and then fails, mutexes allocated in that private memory may
leak their underlying system resources. Therefore, the DB_PRIVATE flag should be used
with caution on QNX.

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The make clean command fails to execute when building the Berkeley DB SQL
interface.
Remove the build directory manually to clean up and proceed.

SCO
1.

If I build with gcc, programs such as db_dump and db_stat core dump immediately
when invoked.
We suspect gcc or the runtime loader may have a bug, but we haven't tracked it down. If
you want to use gcc, we suggest building static libraries.

Solaris
1.

I can't compile and run multithreaded applications.

Special compile-time flags and additional libraries are required when compiling threaded
applications on Solaris. If you are compiling a threaded application, you must compile
with the D_REENTRANT flag and link with the libpthread.a or libthread.a libraries:
cc -mt ...
cc -D_REENTRANT ... -lthread
cc -D_REENTRANT ... -lpthread
The Berkeley DB library will automatically build with the correct options.

I've installed gcc on my Solaris system, but configuration fails because the compiler
doesn't work.
On some versions of Solaris, there is a cc executable in the user's path, but all it does is
display an error message and fail:
% which cc
/usr/ucb/cc
% cc
/usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed
Because Berkeley DB always uses the native compiler in preference to gcc, this is a fatal
error. If the error message you are seeing is the following, then this may be the problem:
checking whether the C compiler (cc -O) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
cannot create executables.
The simplest workaround is to set your CC environment variable to the system compiler
and reconfigure; for example:
env CC=gcc ../dist/configure
If you are using the --configure-cxx option, you may also want to specify a C++ compiler,
for example the following:

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I see the error "libc internal error: _rmutex_unlock: rmutex not held", followed by a
core dump when running threaded or JAVA programs.
This is a known bug in Solaris 2.5 and it is fixed by Sun patch 103187-25.

I see error reports of nonexistent files, corrupted metadata pages and core dumps.
Solaris 7 contains a bug in the threading libraries (-lpthread, -lthread), which causes the
wrong version of the pwrite routine to be linked into the application if the thread library
is linked in after the C library. The result will be that the pwrite function is called rather
than the pwrite64. To work around the problem, use an explicit link order when creating
your application.
Sun Microsystems is tracking this problem with Bug Id's 4291109 and 4267207, and patch
106980-09 to Solaris 7 fixes the problem:
Bug Id: 4291109
Duplicate of: 4267207
Category: library
Subcategory: libthread
State: closed
Synopsis: pwrite64 mapped to pwrite
Description:
When libthread is linked after libc, there is a table of functions in
libthread that gets "wired into" libc via _libc_threads_interface().
The table in libthread is wrong in both Solaris 7 and on28_35 for the
TI_PWRITE64 row (see near the end).

I see corrupted databases when doing hot backups or creating a hot failover archive.
The Solaris cp utility is implemented using the mmap system call, and so writes are
not blocked when it reads database pages. See Berkeley DB recoverability for more
information.

Performance is slow and the application is doing a lot of I/O to the disk on which the
database environment's files are stored.
By default, Solaris periodically flushes dirty blocks from memory-mapped files to the
backing filesystem. This includes the Berkeley DB database environment's shared memory
regions and can affect Berkeley DB performance. Workarounds include creating the
shared regions in system shared memory (DB_SYSTEM_MEM) or application private memory
(DB_PRIVATE), or configuring Solaris to not flush memory-mapped pages. For more
information, see the "Solaris Tunable Parameters Reference Manual: fsflush and Related
Tunables".

I see errors about "open64" when building Berkeley DB applications.

System include files (most commonly fcntl.h) in some releases of AIX and Solaris redefine
"open" when large-file support is enabled for applications. This causes problems when

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compiling applications because "open" is a method in the Berkeley DB APIs. To work

around this problem:

Avoid including the problematical system include files in source code files which also
include Berkeley DB include files and call into the Berkeley DB API.

Before building Berkeley DB, modify the generated include file db.h to itself include
the problematical system include files.

Turn off Berkeley DB large-file support by specifying the --disable-largefile

configuration option and rebuilding.

I see that Berkeley DB automatically uses optimization level '-xO2' for the Sun
Workshop compiler. Can I change this to a higher level?
We have noticed some test failures when compiling with level '-xO3' and higher due to
overaggressive compiler optimizations. We do not recommend changing this setting.

SunOS
1.

I can't specify the DB_SYSTEM_MEM flag to DB_ENV->open().

The shmget(2) interfaces are not used on SunOS releases prior to 5.0, even though they
apparently exist, because the distributed include files did not allow them to be compiled.
For this reason, it will not be possible to specify the DB_SYSTEM_MEM flag to those
versions of SunOS.

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Building for VxWorks 6.x
Building With Wind River Workbench using the Makefile
In VxWorks6.x, developers use Wind River Workbench for software development. Two
makefiles are provided in the db/build_vxworks directory. Use them to build Berkeley DB or
Berkeley DB small build, using the build chain provided with Wind River Workbench.
We assume that you have installed all necessary VxWorks6.x software including the Wind River
Workbench, and that you know how to use it.
Use the following steps to build Berkeley DB:
1. Setting variables in the Makefile. Open the Makefile and modify the BDB_ROOT variable to
the path of your Berkeley DB source tree's root directory. You may need to set other variables
when you build on different platforms, such as BUILD_SPEC, DEBUG_MODE, PROJECT_TYPE,
CC_ARCH_SPEC, VXVER, build tool flags, and BUILD_SPEC specific settings. Please refer to the
documentation of the Workbench for a complete list of available values of each variable. You
can also find out the list of values by creating a project using the Workbench. Each variable's
available values will be listed in the GUI window which assigns values to that variable.
2. Make sure "make" can be found. Basically you need to set the make utility's path to
environment variables.
3. Start up the wrenv utility of the Wind River Workbench.
4. In the command console, move to the $(BDB_ROOT)/build_vxworks/ directory, rename the
target makefile (Makefile.6x or Makefile.6x.small) to "Makefile", and run "make". The make
process will start and create the directory "bdbvxw". It will contain all intermediate object
files as well as the final built image "bdbvxw.out".
5. After the "bdbvxw.out" image is built, you can use command tools or the Workbench IDE to
download and run it.
6. Test and Verification. There is a dbdemo and test_micro, which you can run to verify
whether everything works fine.

VxWorks notes
Berkeley DB currently disallows the DB_TRUNCATE flag to the DB->open() method on VxWorks
because the operations this flag represents are not fully supported under VxWorks.
The DB->sync() method is implemented using an ioctl call into the file system driver with the
FIOSYNC command. Most, but not all file system drivers support this call. Berkeley DB requires
the use of a file system that supports FIOSYNC.

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Building and Running the Demo Program

The demo program should be built in a manner very similar to building Berkeley DB. If you
want different or additional BSP build specifications you should add them by following the
directions indicated in Building for VxWorks 6.x (page 87).
The demo program can be downloaded and run by calling the entry function dbdemo with the
pathname of a database to use. The demo program will ask for some input keys. It creates
a database and adds those keys into the database, using the reverse of the key as the data
value. When complete you can either enter EOF (control-D) or quit and the demo program will
display all of the key/data items in the database.

Building and Running the Utility Programs

The Berkeley DB utilities can be downloaded and run by calling the function equivalent to
the utility's name. The utility functions take a string containing all the supported arguments.
The program will then decompose that string into a traditional argc/argv used internally.
For example, to execute db_stat utility on a database within an environment you would
execute the following from the windsh prompt. Obviously you would change the pathname and
database name to reflect your system.
> db_stat "-h /tmp/myenvhome -d mydatabase.db"

Support for Replication Manager

The Berkeley DB Replication Manager component is available on Vxworks 6.x because it
provides support for TCP/IP sockets and POSIX 1003.1 style networking and threads. You
must build Berkley DB for Vxworks using the command line. Prior to building Berkeley DB,
ensure you set appropriate values for the variables specified in Step 1 of Building for VxWorks
6.x (page 87). To use Berkeley DB Replication Manager, netLib and ioLib must be present
in the Vxworks image.

Failchk Broadcast Notifications

The DB_ENV->failchk() method now has a new option to notify environment processes of an
application failure as soon as possible. This option causes any thread waiting on a mutex
owned by a crashed process to return DB_RUNRECOVERY instead of hanging.
This option is enabled at compile time with the new configure option --enablefailchk_broadcast. When enabled, this option provides a new timeout. It also provides new
events that notify the application when a thread is about to return DB_RUNRECOVERY.

New Parameter Value

DB_SET_MUTEX_FAILCHK_TIMEOUT A new timeout parameter value for the DB_ENV>set_timeout() method to indicate how long a thread will wait for a mutex lock before
checking whether DB_ENV->failchk() has marked the mutex as failed.

New Events
DB_EVENT_FAILCHK_PANIC
DB_EVENT_MUTEX_DIED

New Logging Option

A new logging configuration option has been added which does not flush the transaction
log from the operating system cache to stable storage when a transaction commits or the
logging system switches log files. This can further improve performance when all of the
applications in an environment use less-than-durable transactions (DB_TXN_NOSYNC and
DB_TXN_WRITE_NOSYNC).

New Parameter Value

DB_LOG_NOSYNC A new flags parameter value for the DB_ENV->log_set_config()
method.

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Replication Manager Preferred Master Mode

Replication Manager now supports preferred master mode for two-site replication groups. In
preferred master mode, one site is the preferred master site, which operates as the master as
much of the time as its availability permits. The other site is the client site, which takes over
temporarily as master when the preferred master site is unavailable.

New Parameter Values

DB_REPMGR_CONF_PREFMAS_MASTER A new which parameter value for the DB_ENV>rep_set_config() method to indicate that this site is the preferred master site.
DB_REPMGR_CONF_PREFMAS_CLIENT A new which parameter value for the DB_ENV>rep_set_config() method to indicate that this site is the client site in a preferred master
replication group.

Replication Manager Incoming Queue Size Limit

Replication Manager now limits the amount of dynamic memory that its incoming message
queue can consume and provides new functions to set and get this limit. There is also a new
event that is fired when the incoming message queue first becomes full.

New Functions
DB_ENV->repmgr_set_incoming_queue_max()
DB_ENV->repmgr_get_incoming_queue_max()

New Event
DB_EVENT_REP_INQUEUE_FULL

New Database Format for BLOBs

The database record format for databases containing BLOBs was changed in 12.1.6.0.30. Any
database from version 12.1.6.0.21 or earlier that contains BLOBs must be upgraded before it
can be opened by this or any later version of Berkeley DB. Databases from version 12.1.6.0.30
or later that contain BLOBs and databases without BLOBs do not require upgrading.

Updated SQLite Version

Berkeley DB's SQL interface includes code from SQLite. The version of SQLite used has been
upgraded, so that Berkeley DB SQL is now compatible with SQLite version 3.8.3.1. Please see
the release notes at http://sqlite.org/changes.html for further information.

Upgrading SQL databases to releases after 6.1.19

When upgrading from Berkeley DB releases between 5.0 and 6.1.19 to a release after 6.1.19,
you must re-index any SQL databases. Non-SQL databases do not require any action.

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Upgrading SQL databases on POSIX/UNIX Systems

The shell script upgrade61.sh has been provided to simplify upgrading. Before executing the
script, back up all the databases and shut down any applications that access the databases.
Then execute the script, passing the path to one or more databases in the command line, as
follows:
sh db-x.x.xx/lang/sql/upgrade61.sh <db1.dbsql> <db2.dbsql> ...
The upgrade process can be done by hand by executing the following commands for each
database:
1.

Back up the database and shut down any applications accessing it.

Run recovery on the database journal directory as follows:

db_recover -f -h <database-journal>

Enter the dbsql shell and execute a SQL REINDEX command as follows:
dbsql <database.dbsql>
dbsql> REINDEX
dbsql> .quit

That completes the upgrade process.

Upgrading SQL databases on Windows Systems
The batch script "upgrade61.bat" has been provided to simplify upgrading. Before executing
the script, back up all the databases and shut down any applications that access the
databases. Then execute the script, passing the path to one or more databases in the
command line, as follows:
db-x.x.xx\lang\sql\upgrade61.bat <db1.dbsql> <db2.dbsql> ...
The upgrade process can be done by hand by executing the following commands for each
database:
1.

Back up the database and shut down any applications accessing it.

Run recovery on the database journal directory as follows:

db_recover.exe -f -h <database-journal>

Enter the dbsql shell and execute a SQL REINDEX command as follows:
dbsql.exe <database.dbsql>
dbsql> REINDEX
dbsql> .quit

That completes the upgrade process.

Removed C# Class
The LockDetectMode C# class has been removed as redundant. The same functionality is
available in other classes.

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Dropped Support
Berkeley DB no longer tests or certifies Windows XP or Windows 2003.

Berkeley DB Library Version 12.1.6.1 Change Log

This is the changelog for Berkeley DB 12c Release 1 (library version 12.1.6.1).

Changes between 12.1.6.1.23 and 12.1.6.1.26

A 'salvage' (db_dump -r) no longer hangs on a corrupt database which contains a loop in an
overflow item's chain of pages. [#18550]

Remove +u1 compiler flag from the HP-UX build and fixed related alignment issue.
[#23739]

Fixed DB_RUNRECOVERY errors caused by pthreads-based mutexes. [#23965]

Allow the failchk process to call __env_refresh when necessary. [#24194]

DB->open() now detects invalid pagesizes sooner, avoiding a potential floating point
exception when a purported database file has a pagesize of 0. Added a pre-verify step to
the db_dump utility. [#24217]

Fixed a bug that can cause DBcursor->get to return incorrect data when
DB_GET_BOTH_RANGE flag is used. [#24220.1]

Added support for Java 8. [#24220.2]

Aborting a transaction no longer panics if a deadlock error occurs while freeing up the
transaction's cursors. [#24223]

Fixed a crash which could occur when multiple BDB SQL processes repeatedly open a
database file. [#24230]

10. Fixed a bug where db_printlog improperly handled a "No such file or directory" error
condition. [#24265]
11. Fixed a bug that could cause a master crash in the following cases: an unencrypted client
attempts to join an encrypted replication group, or an encrypted client attempts to join
an unencrypted replication group. [#24288]
12. Fixed a bug that can cause a crash when DB_ENV->memp_stat() is called. [#24298]
13. Added support for arm64. [#24312]
14. Reduced the minimum hash table size. [#24314].
15. Fixed a bug where file names were not displayed correctly when a file failed to open
during backup. [#24340]
16. Enabled cross compiling the JDBC driver. [#24347]

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17. Fixed a crash when writing to a SQL BLOB while txn_bulk is enabled. [#24351]
18. DB->open() now detects invalid bt_minkey better, avoiding a potential floating point
excetpion. [#24398]
19. Removed EnvironmentConfig.setTxnNotDurable() and Environment.getTxnNotDurable()
from the Java API. This flag cannot be set on environments. [#24416]

Changes between 12.1.6.1.20 and 12.1.6.1.23

Fixed a bug that was preventing PRAGMA cache_size from changing the size of the cache.
[#24206]

Fixed a recovery bug that could cause files to end up in the wrong directory when using
logs created in 5.3 or earlier. [#24169]

Creating a table in SQL will no longer fail if the database connection was opened without
the SQLITE_OPEN_CREATE flag. [#24115]

Fixed a bug where an error message was not displayed back to the user correctly when
sequence creation failed. [#24103]

Fixed a bug where BDB was not handling tables with multiple BLOB columns when using
the SQL API. [#24092]

SQL sequence names are now case insensitive except when surrounded by quotation
marks. [#23964]

Avoid incrementing the statistic DB_LOG_STAT.st_scount ("Total log file flushes") when
DB_LOG_NOSYNC is in effect. [#23945]

Fixed a bug that may lead to crash when opening multiple environments in a multithreaded program. [#23913]

Improved the way we mark a password as consumed. [#23876]

10. Fixed the error "BDB2074 No space available in latch table" for configurations using
plain pthreads mutexes and DB_ENV->set_thread_count(). Susceptible configurations
include the definition of HAVE_MUTEX_PTHREADS in db_config.h but do not define
HAVE_MUTEX_HYBRID. [#23831]
11. Fixed a crash when MVCC and snapshot isolation are used and the system is under heavy
load. [#23815]
12. Fixed a problem with closing a panicked environment, in which an infinite loop was
possible. [#23814]
13. Removed Java 5 targets from Windows builds and javadoc production. [#23811]
14. Support for client-to-client replication of BLOB data during internal initialization has been
disabled. [#23748]
15. Fixed a bug that may cause self-deadlock during database compaction. [#23725]

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16. Fixed a bug in the recovery of a truncated hash database. [#23772]

Changes between 12.1.6.1.19 and 12.1.6.1.20

Fixed a sqlite3odbc bug which may return an out-of-memory error when calling
SQLGetData() on empty long columns. [#22777]

Enabling BLOB support and master leases will no longer result in unexpected
DB_REP_LEASE_EXPIRED errors. [#23275]

Fixed a race condition when BLOB support is enabled with replication where message
handling could fail with an ENOENT error. [#23275]

Existing SQL databases will have to be reindexed after upgrading to this release. No
actions are required for non-SQL databases. Check the upgrade documentation for more
details. [#23469]

Fixed a known bug in SQL where ORDER BY could return results out of order if an index is
used to answer the query. [#23469]

Fixed a bug that causes a crash when opening a corrupted environment with encryption
and DB_REGISTER. [#23643]

Fixed a bug that causes a crash when opening a corrupted environment with DB_FAILCHK
using a BDB compiled with DIAGNOSTIC defined. [#23643]

Fixed a bug where closing a panicked environment raised an access violation and crashed
the program. [#23679]

Fixed a bug where db_verify did not verify multiple files correctly. [#23692]

10. Fixed a bug that causes a site joining a replication group to hang or to only partially
complete the internal steps necessary to join the replication group. [#23750]

Database or Log File On-Disk Format Changes

The log file format changed in 12.1.6.1.

New Features/Improvements

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Demonstrated in a sample app how to use thread-specific structures to associate a

DB_EVENT_REP_PERM_FAILED event with the transaction that caused it. [#17686]

Replication Manager Preferred Master is a new option for 2-site replication groups. One
site is the preferred master, which assumes the master role as much of the time as its
availability permits. A preferred master replication group guarantees that transactions
committed on the preferred master site will never be rolled back while also providing
client failover. [#20230]

A new flag DB_FORCESYNCENV is provided for DB_ENV->close(), which forces flushing the
memory mapped regions before unmapping them. [#21176]

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A new API is provided to limit the Replication Manager incoming queue based on the
amount of heap memory it uses. [#21481]

BLOB support is now available for environments configured for replication. [#22359]

A new version of DB_ENV->failchk() helps supports multi-process environments which

use DB_REGISTER rather than a monitoring process. It is turned on with --enablefailchk_broadcast. [#22419]

Added support for Visual Studio 2012. [#22477]

CPU time needed for database backups is now reduced. [#22967]

Added BDB utilities for the Android platform. [#23079]

10. Added --enable-error_history support. This diagnostic tool prints a stack trace when a
panic occurs. [#23119]
11. The new log configuration option DB_LOG_NOSYNC has been added to avoid flushing the
transaction log in order to stabilize storage. This can be useful when durability across
system crashes is unnecessary and all the transactions in the environment specify either
the DB_TXN_NOSYNC or DB_TXN_WRITE_NOSYNC flag. This configuration setting may
be made by DB_ENV->log_set_config() or a DB_CONFIG line "db_log_nosync [on|off]".
[#23191]

Database Environment Changes

Fixed a problem with DB_LOCKDOWN which would cause an mlock error ENOMEM on some
operating systems. [#21379]

DB_ENV->close() now detaches from the environment's mmap and shared memory
regions even when a panic error (DB_RUNRECOVERY) has been returned. DB_ENV>open(DB_REGISTER) detects whether a panic has occurred in the environment. If so it
returns DB_RUNRECOVERY. Prior to this, the panic state was not detected, which might
have caused a hang. [#22805]

Ensure that the size of memory mapped backing files are a multiple of the system
pagesize. Previously the files were aligned up to 8KB boundaries, which was not adequate
for systems with a 64KB pagesize. [#23290]

Improved the sizing of the environment region to better match the needs of thread
tracking as specified by DB_ENV->set_thread_count(). [#24314]

Concurrent Data Store Changes

-None

Access Method Changes

6/18/2015

Fixed a bug that left behind obsolete queue extents. [#21988]

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Fixed a bug that occurred if the range keys did not fit within one database page during
database partition opening. [#22280]

Corrected a buffer mutex deadlock involving off-page duplicate sets and less than full
transactional isolation levels. [#22532]

Fixed a byte swapping bug that could corrupt the header of heap database pages.
[#23318]

API Changes
1.

Make flag checking in sequence stat print API consistent with the other stat print APIs.
[#22513]

SQL-specific API Changes

Fixed a bug that was preventing old log files from being removed while using the SQL API.
[#22521]

Updated SQL API build to be compatible with SQLite 3.8.3.1. [#23178]

Updated ADO.NET API to be compatible with System.Data.SQLite 1.0.91.0. [#23446]

Tcl-specific API Changes

Exposed flag DB_SET_MUTEX_FAILCHK_TIMEOUT in Tcl API. [#23163]

Added msgfile and msgfile_close in the Tcl API. [#31881].

Java-specific API Changes

Exposed DB->set_msgfile(), DB_ENV->set_msgfile() and all xxx_stat_print() in Java API.

[#22691]

Exposed flags DB_REPMGR_CONF_PREFMAS_MASTER and

DB_REPMGR_CONF_PREFMAS_CLIENT in Java API. [#23163]

Exposed new flag DB_LOG_NOSYNC in Java API. [#23191]

Updated DPL changes from BDB JE. [#23251]

Exposed new flag DB_EVENT_REP_INQUEUE_FULL in Java API. [#23280]

Fixed a bug that partition directories could not be set correctly via Java API. [#23410]

C#-specific API Changes

6/18/2015

The class LockDetectMode has been removed. It was duplicating functionality provided in
other classes and not being used. [#21248]

Exposed DB_STAT_ALLOC in PrintLockingSystemStats(), PrintLoggingSystemStats(),

PrintMPoolSystemStats(), PrintMutexSystemStats(), PrintStats() and
PrintTransactionSystemStats(). [#22513]

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Exposed DB->set_msgcall(), DB->set_msgfile(), DB_ENV->set_msgcall() and DB_ENV>set_msgfile() to C# API. [#22799]

Exposed flags DB_REPMGR_CONF_PREFMAS_MASTER and

DB_REPMGR_CONF_PREFMAS_CLIENT in C# API. [#23163]

Exposed new flag DB_LOG_NOSYNC in C# API. [#23191]

Exposed new flag DB_EVENT_REP_INQUEUE_FULL in C# API. [#23280]

Changed definition of all structs to make SWIG 2.0.12 can generate code successfully.
[#23295]

C++-specific API Changes

Fixed a bug that db_stl library could not build using gcc-4.7 or later versions. [#22615]

Replication Changes
1.

Fixed a bug where, after some rare multiple-site failure scenarios including transaction
rollbacks, Replication Manager could have incorrectly determined that new transactions
fulfilled the acknowledgement policy. [#16624]

Acknowledgements are counted more precisely when an unelectable client is first joining
the replication group and also when a master has been set to be unelectable. [#20825]

If there is already a replication process running, do not require a flag value when calling
DB_ENV->repmgr_start() to start a subordinate process. [#20980]

Fixed a bug that a site could not rejoin the replication group on Windows after being
removed from the group. [#22460]

When a removed site rejoins a two-site replication group with

DB_REPMGR_CONF_2SITE_STRICT turned off, defer its election so that the rejoining site
does not prematurely elect itself master with only its own vote when the other site is
already master. [#22683]

Fixed a bug where a Replication Manager subordinate process could fail its
automatic takeover as the replication process because it is unnecessarily waiting for
acknowledgements from other sites before the connections to these sites are properly
established. [#22998]

Fixed a bug where a client synchronization could get stuck because certain error paths
were failing to release an internal lockout. [#23169]

Fixed a bug where replication group-aware log archiving might have unnecessarily kept
log files after certain connection sequences between sites. [#23420]

Locking Subsystem Changes

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Logging Subsystem Changes

Avoid incrementing the statistic DB_LOG_STAT.st_scount ("Total log file flushes") when
DB_LOG_NOSYNC is in effect. [#23945]

Memory Pool Subsystem Changes

None

Mutex Subsystem Changes

Removed an environment handle mutex which was no longer needed. [#23099]

Removed the last source files of the defunct fcntl mutex implementation. [#23119]

library could be built in '.dylib' format on Mac OS X. [#22937]

Additional information about the cause of an error may now be displayed by configuring
with --enable-error_history. [#23119]

Add one public error code 'DB_META_CHKSUM_FAIL'. [#23304]

Added build support on latest MinGW. [#23332]

A configuration warning 'Ignoring --with-cryptography flag value' is added for the noncrypto package. [#23333]

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Parameter LIBSQLSO_LIBS is added to the task libsqlso_target to workaround a linking

issue with the gcc 4.8.1 distributed by Ubuntu. [#23372]

Extended the Mac OS X section in the chapter 7 of the installation guide. [#23388]

10. Fixed PHP module to consistently use the ZEND_REGISTER_RESOURCE macro, preventing
a build failure with PHP 5.5. Updated INSTALL file to note the changed location of sample
output. [#23391]
11. Fixed a few typos in the JDBC/ODBC sections of the Windows/Unix installation guide.
[#23404]

Example Changes
1.

Added an example using BDB SQL with the JDBC driver and ADF. [#22569]

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

Fixed a byte swapping bug with log file operations on blob files. [#22215]

Fixed test failures on QNX with small mutex regions. [#22310]

Database containing BLOBS are now portable between machines of opposite endianness.
[#22455]

Added a -D option to display output for db_dump and db_printlog. This value takes
priority over DB_ENV->set_data_len() if that was called to set the length. [#22485]

Updates to PHP API to handle functional changes in PHP 5.4. [#22549]

Fixed heap databases so they can work on both big and little endian machines. [#22929]

Restructure the blob delete code to improve performance. [#22935]

Properly clean up blob meta database after aborting the creation of its parent database.
[#23000]

Fixed memory alignment issues with the DB_MPOOL stats. [#23150]

10. Fixed a byte swapping bug with heap blob log records. [#23319]
11. Fixed two race condition bugs with DB_ENV->failchk(). [#23347]
12. Fixed memory alignment issue on Solaris. [#23571]
13. Fixed a bug that using Visual Studio 2010 and JDK 1.5 could generate corrupted jar files.
[#23574]
14. Fixed a bug that specifying --with-cryptography=yes did not build the jdbc library
correctly. [#23606]

Platform Certification Changes

6/18/2015

Berkeley DB no longer tests or certifies Windows XP or Windows 2003.

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Deprecated Features
1.

The DB_AUTO_COMMIT flag is present in the DB_SEQUENCE APIs for Java and C#. This flg
is no longer meaningful for these APIs and will be deprecated in the next release.

[#23469] (Fixed in 12.1.6.1.20 -- see above.) The SQL ORDER BY command on the primary
key of a table can in rare cases return the results out of order if an index search is used
in executing the query. For example: Create a single column table. Insert two rows with
identical values. A query on the row id and the column will produce results in a different
order depending on whether an index is used.

Known Bugs

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applications to Berkeley DB 12.1.6.0
Introduction
The following pages describe how to upgrade applications coded against the Berkeley DB
11.2.5.3 library (which belongs to Berkeley DB 11g Release 2) to the Berkeley DB 12.1.6.0
library (which belongs to Berkeley DB 12c Release 1). This information does not describe how
to upgrade Berkeley DB 1.85 release applications.
For information on the general process of upgrading Berkeley DB installations and upgrade
instructions related to historical releases, see the Berkeley DB Upgrade Guide.

Binary Large Object Support

Berkeley DB now has improved facilities for managing binary large objects (blobs). There is
a new streaming interface to efficiently read and write blobs. There are new configuration
interfaces to set an optional size threshold above which an object is created as a blob, and
to manage the location of blob storage. A new SQL pragma enables SQL users to set a similar
optional size threshold above which rows are stored internally in Berkeley DB as blobs.

New Functions
DBC->db_stream()
DB_STREAM->close()
DB_STREAM->read()
DB_STREAM->size()
DB_STREAM->write()
DB_ENV->set_blob_threshold()
DB_ENV->get_blob_threshold()
DB->set_blob_threshold()
DB->get_blob_threshold()
DB_ENV->set_blob_dir()
DB_ENV->get_blob_dir()
DB->set_blob_dir()
DB->get_blob_dir()

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New Flags Accepted by Blob Streaming Interfaces

DB_STREAM_READ accepted by DBC->db_stream()
DB_STREAM_WRITE accepted by DBC->db_stream()
DB_STREAM_SYNC_WRITE accepted by DBC->db_stream() and DB_STREAM->write()

Other New Flags

DB_DBT_BLOB Used on the data DBT accepted by DB->put() and DBC->put() to indicate
that the DBT is a blob.
DB_LOG_BLOB Accepted by DB_ENV->log_set_config() and DB_ENV->log_get_config() to
indicate full logging of blobs.

New Pragma
PRAGMA large_record_opt[=n]

Replication Views
A replication site can now be created as a replication view by using the DB_ENV>rep_set_view() method. A replication view is a read-only copy of some or all of the
replicated databases that cannot become master, participate in elections, or contribute to
transaction durability.

New Function
DB_ENV->rep_set_view()

New Flag
DB_REPMGR_ISVIEW - A new value for the flags field of the DB_REPMGR_SITE structures
returned by the DB_ENV->repmgr_site_list() method to indicate that a site is a replication
view.

Enhanced BDB SQL Replication Options

Berkeley DB SQL replicated applications now support multiprocess access. Also, there are
several new replication pragmas. The replication_ack_policy, replication_ack_timeout
and replication_priority pragmas provide ways to configure a site's acknowledgement
criteria and election priority. The other new pragmas provide additional information about the
current state of the replication group or the local site.

New Pragmas
PRAGMA replication_ack_policy[=all|all_available|none|one|quorum]
PRAGMA replication_ack_timeout[=n]

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PRAGMA replication_priority[=n]
PRAGMA replication_get_master
PRAGMA replication_num_sites
PRAGMA replication_perm_failed
PRAGMA replication_site_status

Replication Manager Automatic Takeover

When running Replication Manager in multiple processes, if the replication process
terminates successfully and there is an available subordinate process, a subordinate
process now automatically takes over as the new replication process. The new
DB_EVENT_REP_AUTOTAKEOVER_FAILED event informs the application when a takeover fails,
leaving the application without a replication process.

New Event
DB_EVENT_REP_AUTOTAKEOVER_FAILED

New Berkeley DB SQL API Pragma

The new Berkeley DB SQL API specific pragma bdbsql_log_buffer has been added to set
the size of the Berkeley DB in-memory log buffer, in bytes. This is useful for long-running
transactions or applications producing large amounts of data because a larger log buffer can
increase throughput.

New Pragma
PRAGMA bdbsql_log_buffer[=n]

UNIX/POSIX SQL Encryption Default

Encryption is no longer enabled by default when building the SQL interface, either with or
without the JDBC driver, on UNIX/POSIX platforms. To enable encryption, use the configure
argument --with-cryptography=yes.

Sequence Datatype Changes

The datatype for several pieces of information associated with sequences has changed from
int32_t to u_int32_t:
DB_SEQUENCE->get() delta parameter
DB_SEQUENCE->set_cachesize() size parameter
DB_SEQUENCE->get_cachesize() sizep parameter

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st_cache_size field of the DB_SEQUENCE_STAT structure

Comparison Function Signature Change

A new parameter has been added to the comparison callback set by the following methods:
DB->set_bt_compare()
DB->set_dup_compare()
DB->set_h_compare()
The new parameter is the locp parameter, and it is the last parameter required in the
callback's signature. It is intended for internal use only. In customer code, the parameter must
be set to NULL.

License Change
Starting with the 6.0 / 12c releases, all Berkeley DB products are licensed under the GNU
AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (AGPL), version 3. This license is published by the Free
Software Foundation (FSF) (1) and approved by the Open Source Initiative (2) . Please review
the terms of the license to ensure compliance before upgrading to the 12c release. Previous
releases of Berkeley DB software will continue to be distributed under the Sleepycat license.

Updated SQLite Version

Berkeley DB's SQL interface includes code from SQLite. The version of SQLite used has been
upgraded, so that Berkeley DB SQL is now compatible with SQLite version 3.7.16.2. Please see
the release notes at http://sqlite.org/changes.html for further information.

Sun Workshop Compiler Optimization Level

Berkeley DB now automatically uses optimization level "-xO2" with the Sun Workshop
compiler. Test failures have been observed with higher optimization levels. This can include
the default "-O", which equates to the higher "-xO3" optimization level for some Sun
compilers.

Dropped Support
Berkeley DB no longer supports Tornado 2.0 or versions of VxWorks earlier than 6.9.

Berkeley DB Library Version 12.1.6.0 Change Log

This is the changelog for Berkeley DB 12c Release 1 (library version 12.1.6.0).

Database or Log File On-Disk Format Changes

6/18/2015

The log file format changed in 12.1.6.0.

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New Features
1.

Added an alternate storage format called blobs, which improves the read and update
performance of very large data items. Interface available through C, C#, C++ and Java
APIs. [#19332]

Added several pragmas to the SQL layer that configure and give information on HA SQL
applications, such as the number of sites in the replication group, or configuring election
priority of a site. [#20227]

Added a BDBSQL_CONCURRENT_CONNECTIONS flag to the SQL API to allow database

locking to be disabled. Useful when there are only readers in the database. [#20928]

When running Replication Manager in multiple processes, if the replication process quits
and there is an available subordinate process, the subordinate process automatically
takes over as the replication process. [#20969]

Added replication views/partial replication feature. Feature available through C, C#, C++
and Java APIs. [#21062]

DPL enhancements to work with JDK7. [#21101]

Added encryption support for the Android JDBC driver. [#21129]

Applications which use snapshot isolation and long-running transactions will, in many
instances, see reduced use of the cache. This leads to improved performance by reducing
the need for temporary freezer files. [#21324]

Added mpool stat fields st_mvcc_resued, st_oddfsize_detect and st_oddfsize_resolve to

C#. [#21325]

10. Added support database partitioning in C# APIs. [#21474]

11. Added a per-thread cache for the locker struct which stores lock identifiers, such
as transaction ids or the locker id returned by DB_ENV->lock_id(). This can improve
concurrency of programs which use DB_ENV->set_thread_count(). [#21591]
12. Port utilities to Windows Mobile. [#21636]
13. Expose 3 new repmgr stat values and a new DB_REPMGR_SITE flag value to C# and Java
APIs. [#21687]
14. Added support for localizing error messages in UTF-8 characters, and added a section
about how to build localized library and an ICU example in Programmer's Reference
Guide. [#21280]

Database Environment Changes

6/18/2015

Redundant whitespaces are now ignored in DB_CONFIG lines pertaining to directories.

[#20158]

Fixed bugs when attempting to open non-DB files as if they were databases. If encryption
was active, an assertion failure would occur. If encryption was not active, the error

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message "BDB0178 Encrypted database: no encryption flag" would incorrectly imply that a
password was required. [#21408]

Concurrent Data Store Changes

None

Access Method Changes

Fixed a bug that could allocate a heap data page in a region after the region creation has
been undone. [#20939]

Fixed a bug in heap that prevented it from working in mixed-endian configurations.

[#21016]

Enhance the search performance for Btree access method when the keys share a common
prefix. [#21216]

Fixed bugs with the byte swapping of heap pages. Now heap databases can be moved
between little-endian and big-endian architectures. [#21387]

Fix a race condition where a cursor in the process of being cleaned up could be accessed
by another thread of control. [#21714]

Duplicating the position of a cursor on a partitioned database will no longer result in a

crash. [#22195]

Fixed an assertion error when closing a joined cursor. [#22398]

API Changes
1.

Change the sequence's cachesize and the delta parameter of DB_SEQUENCE->get to be of

type u_int32_t instead of int32_t. [#21552]

Fixed a bug with the DB_MPOOLFILE->set_maxsize API. In previous releases the file was
allowed to grow one page larger than the configured limit. [#21867]

Change the comparison function in DB->set_bt_compare, DB->set_dup_compare and DB>set_h_compare to accept an extra 'size_t *locp' parameter. [#22235]

SQL-specific API Changes

6/18/2015

Added the PRAGMA large_record_opt, which when enabled can improve the read and
update performance of very large records. [#19332]

Added support for multi-process access to the database in SQL HA applications. [#21050]

In-memory databases can now be created without passing the flag SQLITE_OPEN_CREATE.
[#21456]

Fix a bug in the SQL API where setting the page size to 64 K would cause an error. Also
fixed an associated memory leak in SQL online backup. [#21460]

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Add bdbsql_log_buffer pragma to allow setting of log buffer size. [#21471]

Upgraded SQLite to version 3.7.13. [#21641]

Fixed a mutex leak with multi-prcess access to the database in SQL HA applications.
[#21714]

Fixed a bug that could cause jdbc build to fail on ARM-Linux using gnueabi gcc. [#22123]

Upgraded SQLite to version 3.7.16.2. [#22349]

10. Upgraded ADO.NET to version 1.0.85.0. [#22405]

Tcl-specific API Changes

Support blob storage APIs in Tcl. [#19332]

Java-specific API Changes

Fixed a bug where EnvironmentConfig.setCreateDir() was not correctly configuring the

environment. [#21127]

Fixed a bug where Database.verify() was not correctly configuring the db. [#22401]

Fixed a false error message that could be printed when creating a transaction on a
replication client in Java. [#21671]

C#-specific API Changes

Clean up many C# build warnings. [#22285]

Fixed SWIG typemap defintions for C# interface. [#18509]

Replication Changes

6/18/2015

Fixed several assertion failures that could result when using failchk and replication.
[#19765]

Provide an error when the local site defined during internal initialization is inconsistent
with an earlier definition. [#20870]

Fixed a bug where replication clients were incorrectly flushing the log when the
DB_TXN_WRITE_NOSYNC flag was specified. [#20964]

Fixed a bug where a valid invocation of the DB_ENV->repmgr_start() method would fail
after a previous invocation that supplied an invalid nthreads parameter value. A BDB3640
error was being incorrectly generated. [#21289]

Fixed a bug where the calculation of the number of required master lease grants enforced
that a transaction must be present on a strict majority of replication group sites. It is
sufficient that a transaction be present on at least half of the replication group sites,
which in some cases reduces the number of required lease grants. [#21329]

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Fixed a recovery issue on the client where an incorrect checkpoint was being selected
causing recovery to go to an incorrect point. [#21342]

Fixed a bug that could result in a crash due to an incorrect re-request on a site that just
won an election. [#21344]

Fixed a bug where logs would never get archived if there are 2 sites and various
combinations of failures. [#21448]

Fixed a bug where we were not detecting the fact that DB_TXN_SNAPSHOT was being
used with an HA client. Clients are by definition read only, so snapshot transactions are
not permitted. [#21601]

10. Fixed a bug where the determination of whether or not a site is peer was incorrectly
determined. [#21722]
11. Fixed a bug where a Replication Manager master could stop functioning after accepting an
obsolete group membership site list from another site. [#21804]
12. Reduce the multiple data streams that can sometimes occur if rerequest times are shorter
than the time it takes to switch log files or perform a checkpoint at a client site. [#21843]
13. Fixed a bug that a site is removed unexpectedly from the replication group when the
replication group loses the old master's confirmation of adding the site during a master
change. [#21875]
14. Fixed a bug where a master site could crash when removing a site if the removed site
closes its connections before the master completes its final steps of the operation.
[#22050]
15. Fixed a bug where an election never happens after the loss of the master when master
leases are in use. [#22120]

Locking Subsystem Changes

Fixed a bug that could cause a trap if a lock timeout occured while opening a database.
[#21098]

Fixed a hang which could occur if there were no more space for lockers. [#21774]

Fixed a potential race condition when building the deadlock detection graph which, under
rare conditions, might cause a invalid address fault. [#22261]

Logging Subsystem Changes

Fixed a bug that DB_ENV->log_get_config did not work correctly when it was called before
DB_ENV->open. [#21359]

Memory Pool Subsystem Changes

6/18/2015

Fixed a bug in the DB_ENV->get_cache_max API that caused it to return an incorrect

value and a bug in the DB_ENV->set_cachesize API that caused incorrect behavior when
changing the size of an existing cache. [#21146]

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Fixed a race condition occurring when trying to get information about a file and the file is
being extended by the OS. [#21193]

Corrected error messages in several memory pool configuration functions. [#21779]

Fixed several memory leak items identified by Purify runs. [#22283]

Mutex Subsystem Changes

Fixed an undefined symbol error (MUTEX_IS_OWNED) when configuring with --enablediagnostic --disable-mutexsupport. [#21145]

Fix a bug where we were not properly aligning mutexes in DB_PRIVATE regions when the
application configured an alignment. [#21491]

Fix a race condition between DB_ENV->failchk() and the allocation of a mutex. [#21796]

Limit the default mutex spin count to be at most 200, to avoid excessive spinning on
systems with hundreds of hyperthreads. [#21463]

Transaction Subsystem Changes

None

Test Suite Changes

Added support for get/set_heapsize. [#21510]

Utility Changes

6/18/2015

Fixed a bug where calling DB->set_partition with a key array required users to keep the
memory array valid until after the database was opened. [#18350]

Fixed a bug that caused DB_ENV->backup to stop early if DB_BACKUP_FILES was not set
and a non-DB file was in the data directory. [#21076]

Fixed a problem with db_hotbackup's -F option, which could cause a segmentation

violation. Also replaced an unclear error message. [#21184]

Fixed three problems with db_hotbackup's backup of transaction logs. A hot backup did
not use any configured log directory, but would try to open the logs in the environment
home. The second fix corrected an error path, in which the memory was freed by the
wrong function, possibly causing a guard byte error. The third fix fixed the issue that a
wrong message would be displayed when only "-l" was specified. [#21313]

Fixed a spurious "No such file or directory" (ENOENT) error when running db_archive in an
environment with an empty queue database. [#21541]

Fixed bugs in compaction of large keys in the upper levels of btrees. [#21569]

Most utilities no longer operate on replication clients which are being automatically
initialized. The DB_REP_LOCKOUT error is now returned. [#21593]

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Fixed a resource leak in the db->verify() function for btrees. The bug would slow down
verification and possibly cause it to run out of memory. [##21917]

Removed a potential hang when compacting databases with many duplicates. [#21975]

10. Fixed a bug where we were not returning an error when trying to compact a heap
database. [#22063]
11. Fixed a bug in the error handling of db_log_verify which would cause a segmenation
violation if there were not enough space to create its temporary databases. [#22187]

Configuration, Documentation, Sample Apps, Portability and Build Changes

Fix an odbc configure issue which was causing ODBC build failure with SQL API. [#21490]

Disabled encryption by default in SQL API on Linux, completed build options for
encryption in SQL and SQL JDBC on Linux, Windows and Android, and updated build
process for the three platforms in Installation Guide. [#21872]

Use "-xO2" as the default optimization level for the Sun Workshop compiler. [#22057]

Fix an "opcode not supported" error on MIPS platforms whose assembler defaults to the
MIPS1 instruction set. [#22065]

Provide a consistent way to turn on/off encryption for db,sql,jdbc libraries on Unix.
[#22158]

Added the compile option CONFIG_TEST when using debug mode in the db_csharp
Windows project, to be consistent with the db Windows project. [#22300]

Example Changes
1.

Port the C bulk example to C++. [#19541]

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

6/18/2015

Fixed a race condition that could cause a crash if 2 processes opened the same SQL
database at the same time. [#21041]

Fixed an assert failure in the btree comparison function which caused memory to be
allocated to the wrong thread. [#21232]

Fixed a race condition in the SQL handle cache locking code. [#21265]

Fixed a bug in the SQL code that prevented the table from being created when
BDBSQL_FILE_PER_TABLE is defined. [#21417]

Fixed a bug that some fields of the partition key DBTs returned from DB>get_partition_keys may not be initialized. [#21474]

Fixed a bug that prevented a sub-database from being created under the directory
identified in DB->set_create_dir. [#21603]

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Fixed a bug where dbenv->mp_mtxcount was not being used correctly. [#21768]

Cleaned a few variable initialization problems that were causing failures on 64-bit
Windows. [#21850]

Improved the randomness of the 20 byte unique fileid generator on Windows. [#22470]

10. Fixed a possible assertion failure in the XA Transaction Manager feature. [#22450]

Deprecated Features
1.

Tornado 2.0 is not supported, and VxWorks versions older than 6.9 are not supported.
[#21877]

Prepared transactions may not remove databases. An error EINVAL message will be
returned by TXN->prepare() if the transaction removed any databases.

Databases containing BLOBs are not portable between machines of opposite endianness.

The latest version of the ADO.NET driver uses a new database connection close function
that does not clean up the database completely, leaving transactions active. In our build
projects that we distribute we added the preprocessor definition INTEROP_LEGACY_CLOSE
so the older version will be used. Removing this can cause hangs.

The db_log_verify utility does not currently implement support for the "-D" option.
Also, the "-d" option does not work for an environment with multiple databases. For
environments with sub-databases, some unexpected warnings will be thrown. [#22136]

Aborting a prepared transaction that removes a database or does operations on a blob

cannot undo the operations (although the call to txn->prepare throws an error if a user
tries to do that). [#22226]

Using the DB_FAILCHK flag with just the DB_RECOVER flag can cause processes to hang.
DB_RECOVER will cause the environment to be rebuilt, and when DB_FAILCHK is specified,
it runs fail check as the last step in the open. It is done afer the environment has been
rebuilt. There isnt anything for fail check to really do in this case. The hang can occur if a
separate process also uses this combination which would mean the environment is rebuilt
again and it could conflict with the first process if it is doing the fail check. [#22419]

A rare race condition in the XA transaction manager can return the error XAER_PROTO in a
one-phase commit. [#22450]

Known Bugs

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applications to Berkeley DB 11.2.5.3
Introduction
The following pages describe how to upgrade applications coded against the Berkeley DB
11.2.5.2 library to the Berkeley DB 11.2.5.3 library (both of which belong to Berkeley DB
11g Release 2). This information does not describe how to upgrade Berkeley DB 1.85 release
applications.
For information on the general process of upgrading Berkeley DB installations and upgrade
instructions related to historical releases, see the Berkeley DB Upgrade Guide.

Changes to the build_windows Folder

Visual Studios projects in the build_windows folder have been moved into two new sub
folders build_windows/VS8 and build_windows/VS10. Visual Studios 2010 projects have
been moved into the folder VS10, and Visual Studios 2008 projects have been moved into the
folder VS8.

Replication Connection Status in the Java API

The Java function ReplicationManagerSiteInfo.isConnected()
is now deprecated. To get the replication connection status, use
ReplicationManagerSiteInfo.getConnectionStatus(), which returns the new class
ReplicationManagerConnectionStatus, which has the values CONNECTED, DISCONNECTED,
and UNKNOWN.

New Function
ReplicationManagerSiteInfo.getConnectionStatus()

New Class
ReplicationManagerConnectionStatus

Deprecated Function
ReplicationManagerSiteInfo.isConnected()

Exclusive Database Handles

Database handles can now be configured to allow exclusive access to the database. To enable
exclusive access, call DB->set_lk_exclusive() before calling DB->open(). Set nowait_onoff to
non-zero to have DB->open() return immediately, with the error DB_LOCK_NOTGRANTED if it
cannot immediately get exclusive access to the database, and to 0 to have DB->open() block
until it can gain exclusive access.

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New Functions
DB->set_lk_exclusive()
DB->get_lk_exclusive()

Configure the Region Size of Heap Databases

The region size of heap databases is now configurable. Configuring the region size is
useful in controlling the growth of a heap database. To set the region size, call DB>set_heap_regionsize() with the number of pages that the region should have, before the
database is created. The function is ignored if it is called after the database is created.

New Functions
DB->set_heap_regionsize()
DB->get_heap_regionsize()

New Hotbackup Interface

Two new functions have been added to the API that perform hotbackups, DB_ENV->backup()
and DB_ENV->dbbackup(). DB_ENV->backup() creates a hotbackup of all databases in the
specified environment, and DB_ENV->dbbackup() creates a hotbackup of the specified
database. The functions DB_ENV->set_backup_callbacks() and DB_ENV->set_backup_config()
can be called to customize the behavior of hotbackup. Note that this interface must be used
to create a hotbackup on all non-BSD or Unix based systems.

New Functions
DB_ENV->backup()
DB_ENV->dbbackup()
DB_ENV->set_backup_callbacks()
DB_ENV->set_backup_config()

Flags Accepted by DB_ENV->backup()

DB_BACKUP_CLEAN
DB_BACKUP_FILES
DB_BACKUP_NO_LOGS
DB_BACKUP_SINGLE_DIR
DB_BACKUP_UPDATE

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DB_CREATE
DB_EXCL
DB_VERB_BACKUP

Flags Accepted by DB_ENV->dbbackup()

DB_CREATE
DB_EXCL

Enumerations Accepted by DB_ENV->set_backup_config()

DB_BACKUP_WRITE_DIRECT
DB_BACKUP_READ_COUNT
DB_BACKUP_READ_SLEEP
DB_BACKUP_SIZE

Updated JDBC Version

The JDBC library version included with Berkeley DB has been updated to version 20110827.
The new version supports the Embedded Java JSR 169 standard, which is the official
specification for JDBC with embedded Java platforms.

Configure Directory to Store Metadata Files

The directory in which persistent metadata files are stored can now be configured. By default
persistent metadata files are stored in the environment home directory. The files that will
be stored in the metadata directory are __db.rep.system, __db.rep.gen, __db.rep.egen and
__db.rep.init.
To set the metadata file directory, call DB_ENV->set_metadata_dir() with the path to the
directory in which to store metadata files. The metadata directory can also be set in the
DB_CONFIG file using set_metadata_dir.

New Functions
DB_ENV->set_metadata_dir()
DB_ENV->get_metadata_dir()

Changes in the SQL API Build

Several changes have been made to the SQL API build. Encryption is now disabled by default
on Windows, and the compile time flag BDBSQL_OMIT_SHARING has been changed to
BDBSQL_SINGLE_PROCESS.

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Encryption is now disabled by default in the Windows SQL API build. This makes it consistent
with builds of the SQL API on other systems. To enable encryption in Visual Studios right
click the db_sql project, and select Properties->Configuration Properties->C/C++>Preprocessor and add SQLITE_HAS_CODEC to Preprocessor Definitions.

New Berkeley DB SQL API PRAGMAs

Two new Berkeley DB SQL API specific pragmas have been added, bdbsql_shared_resources
and bdbsql_set_lock_tablesize. bdbsql_shared_resources is used to set the maximum
amount of memory, in bytes, to be used by shared structures in the main environment region,
which is useful in applications with a large number of tables, transactions, or threads.
bdbsql_set_lock_tablesize is used to set the number of buckets in the lock object hash
table in the Berkeley DB environment, which is useful if an application has many concurrent
long running transactions.

New PRAGMAs
PRAGMA bdbsql_shared_resources[=N]
PRAGMA bdbsql_set_lock_tablesize[=N]

Replication for Existing Databases in the SQL API

Replication can now be enabled on existing SQL databases, and replication is now disabled
permanently instead of temporarily. Replication is enabled on an existing database the
same way it is enabled on a new database, with one restriction. The existing database must
configure itself as the initial master of a new replication group. To disable replication on a
database permanently, use pragma replication=OFF;.

PRAGMAs With Permanent Effects

pragma replication=OFF;

PRAGMAs That Can Now Operate on Existing Databases

pragma replication_local_site="host:port";
pragma replication_initial_master=ON;
pragma replication=ON;
\

Berkeley DB X/Open Compliant XA Resource Manager and

Transaction Snapshots
The transactions managed by the Berkeley DB X/open compliant XA resource manager can now
be enabled for transaction snapshots. To enable snapshots open an XA managed database with

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the flag, DB_MULTIVERSION, and all XA managed transactions that operate on that database
will use transaction snapshots.

Berkeley DB Library Version 11.2.5.3 Change Log

This is the changelog for Berkeley DB 11g Release 2 (library version 11.2.5.3).

Database or Log File On-Disk Format Changes

Existing database file formats were unchanged in library version 11.2.5.3.

The log file format changed in library version 11.2.5.3.

New Features
1.

Added support for verifying named in-memory dbs. [#16941]

Added an integer key comparison function to improve performance through the SQL API.
[#19609]

Support build on the platforms where pthread_t is a struct. [#19876]

Added an API call so the user can specify the size of the region in a heap db. [#19914]

Improved Replication Manager's ability to recover from the (perhaps rare) phenomenon
of two sites trying to connect to each other simultaneously, which used to result in loss
of both connections, requiring a retry after the CONNECTION_RETRY timeout period.
[#19980]

Enhanced the interface for copying databases for a hot backup. Added configure support
for --enable-atomicfileread. [#20129]

Enhaced the log reading routine to detect that a log file is missing rather than returning
that a zero length record was found. [#20130]

Added pragma bdbsql_shared_resources to set or report the maximum amount of memory

to be used by shared structures in the main environment region and bdbsql_lock_tablesize
to set or report the number of buckets in the lock object hash table. These are advanced
tuning features for applications with large number of tables or needs to reduce locking on
concurrent long running transactions. [#20156]

Added set_metadata_dir() and get_metadata_dir() to enable storage of persistent

metadata files in a location other than the environment home directory. [#20174]

10. Improved the error handling through the SQL API. Errors can be sent to a file with the use
of the BDBSQL_ERROR_FILE pragma. [#20213]
11. Database handles can now be configured to give exclusive access to the database.
[#20331]
12. XA transactions will now use transaction snapshots if the XA databases they operate on
were configured with DB_MULTIVERSION. [#20332]

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13. Added additional stats fields into the C# API [#20693]

14. Added pragma bdbsql_single_process to keep the Berkeley DB environment information
on the heap instead of in shared memory. This option cannot be used if the database is
accessed from multiple processes. [#20789]
15. Improved the ability of DB->compact to move DB_HASH database pages to the begining of
the file. [#20815]

Database Environment Changes

Fixed a bug that could cause a segmentation violation when closing an environment
handle which has open database handles on partition databases. [#20281]

Fixed a bug that could cause a segmentation violation if a region was extended leaving a
very small fragment at the end. [#20414]

Changed the behavior of the DB_REGISTER | DB_RECOVER flag combination, so that

recovery is always run if the environment panic bit is set. [#20767]

Access Method Changes

Fixed a bug were database configuration settings could be lost when the database was
opened if the open operation was blocked for any amount of time. [#20860]

Fixed a bug that bulk update operations did not work correctly on compressed databases.
[#19017]

Improved the log flushing performance when ftruncate() is not available on a system.
[#19725]

When performing partial puts in a heap database, empty pieces will no longer be left in a
split record chain. [#20052]

Fixed a bug where, on systems without FTRUNCATE, db_verify will return an error for
truncated heap databases. [#20195]

Fixed a bug where BDB could run out of mutexes when many databases are renamed.
[#20228]

Fixed a bug where the metadata page in hash databases would not be flushed to disk.
[#20265]

Fixed a bug that could leave deleted pages from a HEAP database in the buffer cache.
[#20309]

Fixed a bug where the library would fail to put records with overflow keys into hash
duplicate database. [#20329]

10. Fixed a bug in DB->compact of btrees that could cause a bad pointer reference. [#20360]

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11. Fixed a bug that could cause the last page number stored on the metadata page to be
wrong after rolling forward a db->compact operation that freed more pages than will fit
in a single log record. [#20646]
12. Fixed a bug that could cause DB->stat to block on a mutex while holding a lock on the
metadata page. [#20770]
13. Fixed a bug that could cause DB->compact of a DB_HASH database to fail to mark a page
it updated as dirty. [#20778]
14. Fixed a bug where internal HEAP structures were not rebuilt during database handle
refresh. [#20821]
15. Fixed a bug with secondary indices, off-page duplicates and DB_READ_COMMITTED which
could erroneously release the lock on the page holding a returned record. [#20853]
16. Fixed a bug that could cause a hang or improperly report an empty queue when the queue
record numbers wrapped around at 2^32. [#20956]
17. Fixed a bug on Linux or Windows that could generate a checksum error if a database file
was being opened while the meta data page happened to be flushed from the cache.
[#20996]

SQL API Changes

6/18/2015

Fixed several memory leaks in the Online Backup API. [#19850]

Fixed a bug in the SQL API when using large blob items and multiple concurrent
connections. [#19945]

To avoid a race condition that could cause a snapshot reader to see a wrong version it is
now not permitted to open a DB handle specifying DB_MULTIVERSION if that database is
currently opened by a handle which did not specify DB_MULTIVERSION. [#19940]

Pragma replication=on can now enable replication on an existing database. Turning

replication off is now permanent. [#20180]

Fixed a bug in the SQL API where it was possible for a schema update to be ignored when
accessing a database from multiple processes. [#20319]

Fixed a bug where aborting an exclusive transaction followed by an auto-commit read

operation causes an assert failure. [#20567]

Fixed a bug in the SQL API where using the journal_mode pragma could cause a crash
when used as the first operation in a connection on an existing database. [#20620]

Turn off the DBSQL encryption option on Windows/WinCE by default to match the
behavior on the other platforms. [#20671]

Renamed the BDBSQL_OMIT_SHARING preprocessor flag to BDBSQL_SINGLE_PROCESS.

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10. Fixed a bug dealing with handle lock modes not reflecting the correct state which was
causing a deadlock in the SQL API. [#20862]

Java-specific API changes

Added ReplicationManagerConnectionStatus class and

ReplicationManagerSiteInfo.getConnectionStatus(). Deprecated
ReplicationManagerSiteInfo.isConnected(). [#18068]

Updated EID_MASTER to be "public static final" so that it would be exposed in Java docs.
[#20184]

Fixed a bug where calls that return Stat objects could cause a segfault. [#20377]

Replication Changes
1.

Fixed quorum computation when most sites are unelectable. [#15251]

Made Replication more resilient to random input on its port. [#15712]

Fixed a bug where the datadir structure was not maintained during an internal init.
[#19041]

Fixed a repmgr memory leak when using DB_PRIVATE. [#19363]

Fixed a minor bug to handle ENOMEM when using an in-memory temp database. [#20197]

Fixed a bug where multiple long running transactions across checkpoints could cause Log
Sequence errors on client systems. [#20421]

Fixed a bug where multiple Replication Manager processes would sometimes not all
conform to replication-group-aware log archiving. [#20342]

Locking Subsystem Changes

Fixed a bug that could cause an early lock timeout if a previous error left a lock timeout
value set. [#19973]

Logging Subsystem Changes

Fixed a bug which could cause an incompletely written log record to be recognized as
valid, resulting in recovery failing with the message "Illegal record type <integer, usually
0> in log". [#17851]

Fixed a bug where printlog would fail on in-memory heap databases. [#20269]

Memory Pool Subsystem Changes

6/18/2015

Fixed a bug which overstated the number of clean and dirty pages evicted from the
cache. [#20410]

Fixed a bug that left a small fragment at the end of a region when extending. [#20414]

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Fixed a bug where the file bucket was always zero when creating a mpoolfile using the
mpool API. [#20468]

Fixed a bug with multiversion concurrency control which could cause versions of pages to
remain in the cache even though they are no longer needed. [#20570]

The memory pool allocator will now start freezing MVCC versions of buffers if it sees more
than 1/4 of the available buffers are taken up by versions. [#20836]

Mutex Subsystem Changes

Fixed a bug in which DB_ENV->mutex_set_align() could cause DB_ENV>mutex_stat_print(dbenv, DB_STAT_ALL) to display only the first mutex. [#20522]

Fixed a bug with DB_ENV->mutex_stat_print() in which the information on some mutexes

would not be displayed, if any mutex had been freed and not yet reallocated. [#20533]

Transaction Subsystem Changes

Fixed a bug where a malloc failure could result in a segfault when doing a put on a
database with secondaries. [#20641]

Utility Changes
1.

Fixed a bug that would cause verify to call the wrong compare function if there are user
defined compare functions used and the database has multilevel off page sorted duplicate
trees. [#20284]

Fixed a bug that could cause recovery to fail if DB->compact moved the meta data page
of a HASH subdatabase. [#20708]

Configuration, Documentation, Sample Apps, Portability and Build Changes

The DB_CONFIG configuration commands which specify directory pathnames

("set_data_dir", "set_lg_dir", and "set_tmp_dir") now accept names containing whitespace
characters. [#20158]

If two SQL processes are concurrently altering the schema of the same tables in a
database, there is a race condition that can cause the application to hang. [#20513]

Replication groups including machines of different endianness do not support the heap
access method. [#21016]

If a txn that is attempting to remove a region page from a heap database is aborted and
another txn is trying to update that same page then it can cause the original txn to abort.
This is timing dependant. [#20939]

Known Bugs

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applications to Berkeley DB 11.2.5.2
Introduction
The following pages describe how to upgrade applications coded against the Berkeley DB
11.2.5.1 library to the Berkeley DB 11.2.5.2 library (both of which belong to Berkeley DB
11g Release 2). This information does not describe how to upgrade Berkeley DB 1.85 release
applications.
For information on the general process of upgrading Berkeley DB installations and upgrade
instructions related to historical releases, see the Berkeley DB Upgrade Guide.

SQLite Interface Upgrade

Berkeley DB's SQL interface includes code from SQLite. The version of SQLite used has been
upgraded, so DB SQL is compatible with SQLite version 3.7.6.2. Please see the release notes at
http://sqlite.org/changes.html for further information.

32bit/64bit Compatibility on Windows

Berkeley DB can now be compiled on Windows so that 32 bit and 64 bit applications
can concurrently access a BDB environment. To enable this feature, build both the 32
bit BDB library and application and the 64 bit library and application with the flag /D
HAVE_MIXED_SIZE_ADDRESSING. Note that private environments are disabled under the
compatibility mode.

Read Only flag for DBT

A DBT can now be set as read-only, when passed to the DB->get() method, using the flag
DB_DBT_READONLY. This is useful when using a static string as a key value, because this flag
will prevent Berkeley DB from updating the DBT.

New Flag
DB_DBT_READONLY

Dynamic Environment Configuration

Memory is now allocated incrementally as needed, instead of all at once during environment
initialization, for structures that support locks, transactions, threads, and mutexes. With this
change new functions have been added that configure how much memory is allocated initially,
and how much that memory is allowed to grow. The old memory configuration functions have
been deprecated.

New Functions
DB_ENV->set_memory_init()

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DB_ENV->get_memory_init()
DB_ENV->set_memory_max()
DB_ENV->get_memory_max()
DB_ENV->set_lk_tablesize()
DB_ENV->get_lk_tablesize()
DB_ENV->mutex_set_init()
DB_ENV->mutex_get_init()

Deprecated Functions
DB_ENV->mutex_set_max()
DB_ENV->mutex_get_max()
DB_ENV->set_lk_max_lockers()
DB_ENV->get_lk_max_lockers()
DB_ENV->set_lk_max_locks()
DB_ENV->get_lk_max_locks()
DB_ENV->set_lk_max_objects()
DB_ENV->get_lk_max_objects()
DB_ENV->set_thread_count()
DB_ENV->get_thread_count()
DB_ENV->set_tx_max()
DB_ENV->get_tx_max()

Exclusive Transactions in the SQL Layer

Issuing the SQL command BEGIN TRANSACTION EXCLUSIVE will now cause any other
transactions accessing the database to block, or return a SQLITE_BUSY or SQLITE_LOCK error,
until the exclusive transaction is committed or aborted. Previously, non-exclusive transactions
could execute concurrently with an exclusive transaction.

Group Membership in Repmgr

Replication Manager now manages group membership much more closely, making it much
easier for applications to add and remove sites from a replication group without risk of
transaction loss. In order to accomplish this, the API for configuring group membership has

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changed significantly. The repmgr_set_local_site() and repmgr_add_remote_site()

methods no longer exist; they are replaced by a new handle type, DB_SITE. The
repmgr_get_local_site() method has been replaced by DB_ENV->repmgr_site(), which now
returns a DB_SITE handle instead of a raw host/port network address.
Replication Manager applications may no longer call the DB_ENV->rep_set_nsites() method,
because the Replication Manager now tracks the number of sites in the replication group for
you. Replication Manager applications may still call DB_ENV->rep_get_nsites(), but only after a
successful call to DB_ENV->repmgr_start().
For applications using the replication Base API there is no change, except that they may now
call DB_ENV->rep_set_nsites() to change the group size even when Master Leases are in use.
The new Replication Manager group membership functionality is described in the Managing
Replication Manager Group Membership chapter in the Berkeley DB Programmer's Reference
Guide.
Replication Manager no longer prints an error message on a connection failure. Instead it
generates an event with the equivalent information (invoking the application's event-handling
call-back function).

Upgrading
An existing application running a previous version of BDB can do a "live upgrade" so that only
one site at a time has to be shut down. To do this, restart each site in the group, with the
old master being shutdown last. When each site is restarted, use DB_SITE to configure the
local site with the flag DB_LEGACY, and create a DB_SITE handle with a full specification of
all the remote site addresses for all other sites currently in the group, and configure each
handle with the DB_LEGACY flag. When the old master is restarted and a new master has been
established, the new master is ready to manage membership changes, and new sites can be
added as usual. But the application must not try to add new sites, or remove existing sites,
during the mixed-version transitional phase.
To do a non-live upgrade shutdown the entire replication group. Then restart the group with
each site configured with the DB_LEGACY flag, and in DB_REP_ELECTION mode.

New Functions
DB_ENV->repmgr_site()
DB_ENV->repmgr_site_by_eid()
DB_SITE->set_config()
DB_SITE->get_config()
DB_SITE->remove()
DB_SITE->get_eid()
DB_SITE->get_address()

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DB_SITE->close()

Modified Functions
DB_ENV->rep_set_nsites() is no longer used by the Replication Manager, but is still used by
the Base API. It can now be used to change the number of sites dynamically, even when
master leases are in use.

New Events
DB_EVENT_REP_SITE_ADDED
DB_EVENT_REP_SITE_REMOVED
DB_EVENT_REP_LOCAL_SITE_REMOVED
DB_EVENT_REP_CONNECT_BROKEN
DB_EVENT_REP_CONNECT_ESTD
DB_EVENT_REP_CONNECT_TRY_FAILED
DB_EVENT_REP_INIT_DONE

Removed Functions
DB_ENV->repmgr_set_local_site()
DB_ENV->repmgr_add_local_site()
DB_ENV->repmgr_add_remote_site()
DB_ENV->repmgr_get_local_site()

New Parameters
The following new parameters are passed to DB_SITE->set_config().
DB_BOOTSTRAP_HELPER
DB_GROUP_CREATOR
DB_LEGACY
DB_LOCAL_SITE
DB_REPMGR_PEER

New Structure
DB_REPMGR_CONN_ERR encapsulates an EID and an integer system error code.

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Heap Access Method

Databases can now be configured as heaps by passing the access type DB_HEAP to DB->open().
Heap size can be configured with DB->set_heapsize(), and DB->stat() now returns heap
statistics in the structure DB_HEAP_STAT when applied to a heap database.

New Functions
DB->set_heapsize()
DB->get_heapsize()

Modified Functions
DB->open() now accepts DB_HEAP as an access type.
DB->stat() now returns heap statistics in the structure DB_HEAP_STAT.

New Definition
DB_HEAP_RID is the defined heap key value.

Enabling Transaction Snapshots in the SQL Layer

Read/write concurrency can now be enabled in the SQL API by using PRAGMA
multiversion=on before accessing any tables in the database. After multiversion has been
enabled, it can be temporarily disabled using the PRAGMA transaction_snapshots=on/off.

New Pragmas
For more details on pragmas concerning Transaction Snapshots read Using Multiversion
Concurrency Control in the Berkeley DB Getting Started with the SQL APIs guide.
PRAGMA multiversion=ON|OFF;
PRAGMA snapshot_isolation=ON|OFF

2SITE_STRICT Enabled by Default in Replication

The 2SITE_STRICT replication configuration parameter is now turned on by default. This
configuration parameter is controlled using the DB_REPMGR_CONF_2SITE_STRICT. flag on the
DB_ENV->rep_set_config() method.

Enabling Replication in the SQL Layer

Replication can now be enabled and configured in the SQL layer using pragmas. The pragmas
replication_local_site, replication_initial_master, and replication_remote_site
can be used to configure the replication group. Note that when the BDB SQL replicated

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application is initially started, a specific master site must be explicitly designated. After
configuring the replication group, start replication using PRAGMA replication=ON.
To display replication statistics in the dbsql shell, use:
dbsql> .stat :rep

New Pragmas
For more details on the replication pragmas see Replication PRAGMAs in the Berkeley DB
Getting Started with the SQL APIs guide.
PRAGMA replication=ON|OFF
PRAGMA replication_initial_master=ON|OFF
PRAGMA replication_local_site="hostname:port"
PRAGMA replication_remote_site="hostname:port"
PRAGMA replication_remove_site="host:port"
PRAGMA replication_verbose_output=ON|OFF
PRAGMA replication_verbose_file=filename

Repmgr Message Channels

Application components running at various sites within a replication group can now use the
Replication Manager's existing TCP/IP communications infrastructure to send and process
messages among themselves, using the DB_CHANNEL handle. DB_ENV->repmgr_channel()
is used to create the DB_CHANNEL handle. DB_CHANNEL->send_msg() and DB_CHANNEL>send_request() are used to send sychronous and asychronous messages that are handled by
the function set by DB_ENV->repmgr_msg_dispatch(). DB_CHANNEL->set_timeout() is used to
configure channel time out, and DB_CHANNEL->close() closes the channel and frees resources
held by it.

New Functions
DB_ENV->repmgr_msg_dispatch()
DB_ENV->repmgr_channel()
DB_CHANNEL->send_msg()
DB_CHANNEL->send_request()
DB_CHANNEL->set_timeout()
DB_CHANNEL->close()

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Sequence Support in the SQL Layer

A partial implementation of the sequence API defined in the SQL 2003 specification has been
added to the SQL layer. A sequence is created using the syntax:
SELECT create_sequence("sequence_name"...)
The sequence numbers are accessed using
SELECT nextval("sequence_name")
and
SELECT currval("sequence_name")
Finally, a sequence can be dropped using
SELECT drop_sequence("sequence_name")

New Functions
The four new functions, which have to be called as part of a SELECT statement, are describe
in more detail in Using Sequences in the Berkeley DB Getting Started with the SQL APIs guide.
create_sequence
seq_nextval
seq_currval
seq_drop_sequence.

Berkeley DB X/Open Compliant XA Resource Manager

The Berkeley DB X/open compliant XA resource manager has been restored. (It was removed
from the product after the 4.7 release.) The new implementation includes support for multithreaded servers. Consult the documentation of your chosen transaction manager to learn how
to implement a multi-threaded server.

Constraints
Applictions that use a BDB XA resource manager must now take into account the following
constraints.
No in-memory logging.
No application-level child transactions.
All database-level operations (open, close, create and the like) must be performed outside
of a global transactions (i.e., they can be performed in local BDB transactions, but not while
a distributed XA transaction is active).
Environment configuration must be done using a DB_CONFIG file.

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Cursors must be closed before a service invocation returns.

New Flag
DB_XA_CREATE - This flag is passed to db_create() to create a DB handle that supports XA
transactions.

Modified Function
DB->stat() now returns the field DB_TXN_STAT->DB_TXN_ACTIVE->xa_status, which
contains information on the XA transactions.

Hot Backup Changes

Because non-UNIX systems do not support atomic file system reads, the db_hotbackup utility
has been modified to read data through the environment. If your application is running on
a UNIX based system such as Solaris, HPUX, BSD or Mac OS, you can specify the -F flag to
read directly from the filesystem. Please refer to Recovery procedures in the Berkeley DB
Programmer's Reference Guide for more information on safely backing up your databases.

Berkeley DB Library Version 11.2.5.2 Change Log

This is the changelog for Berkeley DB 11g Release 2 (library version 11.2.5.2).

Database or Log File On-Disk Format Changes

Existing database file formats were unchanged in library version 11.2.5.2. However, a new
database file format, "heap", was introduced.

The log file format changed in library version 11.2.5.2.

New Features

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Replication Manager now manages Group Membership. This allows sites to be added
to and removed from the replication group dynamically. Replication Manager also now
automatically keeps track of the group size (nsites). [#14778]

Initial allocations for various non-pagebuffer (mpool) system resources may now be
specified, as well as a total maximum of memory to use, rather than specifying a
maximum value for each resource. [#16334]

Implemented Berkeley DB globalization support architecture to enable localized and

stripped error and output messages. [#16863]

Added a new access method, DB_HEAP. Heap aims for efficient use (and re-use) of disk
space. Keys in a heap database are automatically generated by BDB, it is recommended
that one or more secondary indexes be used with a heap database. For full details on
DB_HEAP, see the Programmer's Reference Guide. [#17627]

Added a compatible mode for 32bit and 64bit Windows environment. [#18225]

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For the SQL API, concurrency between read and write transactions can now be enabled
using "PRAGMA multiversion". Added several pragmas that can be used to configure the
Berkeley DB datastore. [#18521]

Add several new pragmas to provide in-process support for replication in the SQL API.
[#18528]

The Berkeley DB X/open compliant XA resource manager has been restored, including
support for multi-threaded servers. [#18701]

Improved the ability to recover from an application crash on connections through the SQL
API. Berkeley DB will try to automatically clean up locks, mutexes and transactions from
the failed process. [#18713]

10. Add support for sequence usage in the SQL API using SQLite custom functions. [#19007]
11. Add a pragma in the SQL API to allow execution of a cache trickle command. [#19202]
12. Add a pragma in the SQL API to allow configuration of DB_SYSTEM_MEM environments.
[#19249]
13. The new db_env_set_win_security(SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES *) function allows an application
to specify the particular Microsoft Windows security attributes to be used by Berkeley
DB. This helps support applications which reduce their privileges after opening the
environment. [#19529]

Database Environment Changes

None

Concurrent Data Store Changes

None

Access Method Changes

6/18/2015

Modified the queue access method so that it only uses latches on the metadata page
rather than a latch and a lock. This was done to improve performance. [#18749]

Fixed several bugs that could cause an update running with MVCC to get the wrong version
of a page or improperly update the metadata last page number. [#19063]

The database open code will no longer log the open and close of the master database in a
file when opening a sub database in that file. [#19071]

Fixed a bug where an error during an update to a hash database with DB_NOOVERWRITE
set could return DB_KEYEXIST rather than the correct error. [#19077]

Fixed a bug that could cause the wrong page number to be on a root or metadata page if
DB->compact moved the page and the operation was later rolled forward. [#19167]

Fixed a bug that could cause the close of a secondary index database to fail if the
transaction doing the open aborted. [#19169]

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Fixed a bug that could prevent an update to a primary recno or queue database with
DB_NOOVERWITE set. [#19230]

Fixed a bug when an update to a database with DB_NOOVERWRITE set could incorrectly
return DB_KEYEXIST rather than the correct error (e.g., DB_LOCK_DEADLOCK). [#19345]

Fixed a bug preventing the use of the set_re_len and set_re_pad methods with a RECNO
database when configuring with --disable-queue. [#19367]

10. Fixed a bug in DB->compact on BTREE databases that did not check if the last page in the
database could be moved to a lower numbered page. [#19394]
11. Fixed a bug that could cause a Log Sequence Error when recovering the deallocation of a
multiple page overflow chain. [#19474]
12. Fixed a bug that could cause a diagnostic assertion if MVCC was in use and multiple levels
of a btree needed to be split. [#19481]
13. Fixed a few error paths that could cause a Panic with an "unpinned page returned" error.
[#19493]
14. Fixed a bug that closed a race condition that under heavy mult-threaded appending to a
queue database could cause some records to be lost. [#19498]
15. Fixed a bug that might cause DB->compact to mis-estimate the size of an overflow record
when merging two pages. This may cause the page to have more data than desired.
[#19562]
16. Fixed a bug in DB_ENV->fileid_reset that did not update the fileid's on the metadata
pages of subdatabases if the database file was not in native byte order. [#19608]
17. Fixed a bug that caused the first directory specified in the create of a partitioned
database to get too many partitions. [#20041]

SQL API Changes

6/18/2015

Fixed a race condition that would cause a corruption error in one process when two
processes created the same SQL database. [#18929]

Fixed a bug that would cause a constraint violation when updating the primary key with
the same value. [#18976]

Overwriting an old backup with a new backup using the SQL online backup API will no
longer double the size of the database. [#19021]

Implemented index optimizations for indexes on large values. [#19094]

Fixed a bug that could cause an undetected deadlock between a thread which moved a
metadata or root page via a DB->compact operation and another thread trying to open
the database if the old page was being removed from the file. [#19186]

Fix a bug in the BDBSQL_FILE_PER_TABLE option, to allow absolute path names. [#19190]

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Add a pragma to allow configuration of DB_SYSTEM_MEM environments. [#19249]

Exclusive transactions will now block new transactions and will prevent existing
transactions from making forward progress. [#19256]

Fixed a bug that would cause assert error when opening an in-memory hash database with
thread count configured when compiled with --enable-diagnostic. [#19357]

10. Upgrade the bundled version of SQLite to 3.7.6.2 [#19376]

11. Fixed a performance bug with the cache victim selection algorithm when there were
multiple cache regions. [#19385]
12. Fixed a bug which could cause two SQL threads to have an undetected deadlock when
opening or closing tables. [#19386]
13. Fix a bug that could cause a hang when deleting a table if there are multiple connections
to a database from different processes. [#19419]
14. Fixed a bug which could cause multiple threads performing DB->compact on the same
database file to overrun the in-memory freelist, which could potentially lead to memory
corruption. [#19571]
15. Fixed a bug in DB->compact that could cause a loop if an attempt to move a sub-database
meta data page deadlocked. [#20028]

C API Changes
1.

Fixed a bug where encryption could not be enabled for individual databases in an
encrypted environment. [#18891]

Removed two unused error codes, DB_NOSERVER_HOME and DB_NOSERVER_ID. [#18978]

Added a DB_DBT_READONLY flag so that users can pass in a non-usermem key

(DB_DBT_USERMEM) for get operations. [#19360]

Fixed a bug in DB/DBC->get/pget that the partial flags are silently ignored with positional
flags and return inconsistent DBT. [#19540]

Fixed a bug which prevented items from being deleted on a secondary database. [#19573]

Fixed a bug to correctly handle the DB_BUFFER_SMALL case on delete operations when
compression is enabled. [#19660]

Tcl-specific API Changes

None.

C#-specific API Changes

6/18/2015

Added support for partial put/get in the C# API. [#18795]

Fixed a bug in compare delegate for secondary db. [#18935]

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Replication Changes
1.

Replication Manager now allows differing ack policies at different sites throughout
the group, and supports dynamic changes to the ack policy. (The ack policy in force is
determined by the current master.) [#14993]

Replication Manager "channels" feature allows applications to share repmgr's

communication facilities. [#17228]

Add example program for RepMgr "channels" feature: ex_rep_chan. [#17387]

Replication Manager now allows dynamic changes to a site's "electability" (changes

between zero and non-zero priority). This feature should be used with care, because
electability changes can in boundary cases invalidate durability guarantees granted for
previous transactions. [#17497]

Changed election criteria so that later group transactions won't get overwritten by earlier
generations with more log. [#17815]

Added changes to master lease checks that result in improved performance when using
master leases. [#18960]

A log write failure on a replication master will now cause a panic since the transaction
may be committed on some clients. [#19054]

Fixed a few memory leak conditions on error paths. [#19131]

Change lease code so that zero priority sites do not count in lease guarantees since they
cannot be elected. [#19154]

10. Repmgr rerequest processing is moved from a dedicated thread to heartbeat messages.
Repmgr clients using heartbeats can now detect and rerequest missing final master log
records without master activity. [#19197]
11. Repmgr statistics are now included in full statistics output for an environment. [#19198]
12. Fix an inefficiency in mixed version elections. We now check if an election is won via the
EID instead of priority. [#19254]
13. Changed election LSNs to use the last txn commit LSN instead of the end of the log.
[#19278]
14. Create replication internal database files in the environment home directory rather than
the data directory so that they are in the same location as the other internal replication
files. [#19403]
15. Fix a bug that was preventing repmgr from calling an election when starting a site with
the DB_REP_ELECTION flag. [#19546]
16. Fixed a bug which could cause a segfault at a replication master if a named in-memory
database was being created around the same time as a client site were synchronizing (in
"internal init") with the master. [#19583]

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17. Adjust lease code to consider timeout length when retrying. [#19705]
18. Fixed a bug that could cause a crash in replication groups of more than 10 sites, with
multiple processes sharing each DB environment concurrently. [#19818]
19. Fix a bug where an assertion failure could happen if pages in a database were deallocated
during a client internal initialization.[#19851]
20. Fix a bug where an internal initialization of a queue database with non-contiguous extent
files could return an error. [#19925]
21. The 2SITE_STRICT replication configuration parameter is now turned on by default. It can
be turned off via a call to DB_ENV->rep_set_config(). [#19937]
22. Repmgr heartbeats can now help detect a duplicate master without the need for
application activity. [#19950]

Locking Subsystem Changes

Fixed a bug where an updater supporting DB_READ_UNCOMMITED might downgrade its

lock too soon if there was an error during the update. [#19155]

Fixed a bug where transaction timeouts could have been specified in a database
environment where the locking subsystem was disabled. [#19582]

Fixed a bug in a diagnostic assertion that was improperly triggered by the removal of a
sub-database. [#19683]

Fixed a bug that would cause DB_ENV->failcheck to free locks for a locker associated with
a database handle after the thread that opened the handle exited. [#19881]

Logging Subsystem Changes

Enhanced recovery so that it will not output extra checkpoint or transaction id recycle log
records if there was no activity since the last checkpoint. [#15330]

Log checksums can now be disabled using the compile argument --disable-log-checksum.
This will give a performance increase at the risk of undetectable corruption in the log
records, which would make recovery impossible. [#19143]

Fixed a bug that could cause a page that should have been removed from the end of a file
still be in the copy of the file in a hot backup. [#19996]

Memory Pool Subsystem Changes

Fixed a bug in MPOOLFILE->get that did not permit the DB_MPOOL_DIRTY flag to be used
with other flags. [#19421]

Mutex Subsystem Changes

6/18/2015

Fixed a bug when the mutex region needs to be larger than 4GB, the region size was
incorrectly adjusted to be slightly too small to fit the mutexes. [#18968]

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Fixed a performance problem with hybrid shared latches in which a request for exclusive
access would busy-wait (rather than put itself to sleep) if the latch were held by a shared
reader. This also fixed the timeout handling of hybrid mutexes. In some cases the timeout
would not be honored, resulting in delays for the replication "read your writes" feature
which were longer than requested. [#18982]

Fixed the timeout handling of the pthreads mutexes used by the replication "read your
writes" feature. When a timeout occurred there was a race condition which might result
in a hang. [#19047]

Transaction Subsystem Changes

Fixed a leak of log file ids when a database is closed before the end of a transaction that
references it. [#15957]

Fixed a bug that would cause a panic if a child transaction performed a database rename,
then aborted, and then the parent transaction committed. [#18069]

Fixed a bug where we released the metadata page lock too early if a non-transactional
update was being done. [#19036]

Removed the possibility that checkpoints will overlap in the log, decreasing the time to
recover. [#19062]

Test Suite Changes

Require Tcl 8.5 or greater.

Utility Changes
1.

Added a new utility, db_tuner, which analyzes the data in a btree database, and suggests
a reasonable pagesize. [#18910]

Fixed some bugs in log_verify when there are in-memory database logs and subdb logs.
[#19157]

Modified db_hotbackup to not read from the file system as required on non-UNIX systems.
Also provided the db_copy function for this purpose. [#19863]

Fixed db_hotbackup so that when -d/-l or -D is not specified, DB_CONFIG is used to

determine the locations of the databases and logs in the source environment. [#19994]

Configuration, Documentation, Sample Apps, Portability and Build Changes

6/18/2015

Changed SQL API library built on *nix to link with libpthreads when necessary. [#19098]

Added CPPFLAGS into our --enable-jdbc configuration. [#19234]

Added encryption support into the Windows CE build project for SQL API. [#19632]

Fixed a bug in the STAT_INC_VERB() dtrace probe that was causing compiler warnings.
[#19707]

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Fixed a bug that could cause a trap in db_dump using salvage mode if a page was found
that was not associated with any database in the file. [#19974]

On Cygwin, circumvented a bug in libtool that is exposed when building the BDB SQL API
in a directory path containing whitespace characters. [#19812]

Example Changes
1.

Update repmgr C, C#, C++, Java examples(ex_rep_mgr, ex_rep_gsg_repmgr, ex_rep_chan,

excs_repquote, excxx_repquote, excxx_epquote_gsg, repquote, repquote_gsg) with their
related API changes for group membership. [#19586][#19622]

Port ex_rep_chan, ex_rep_gsg_repmgr,ex_rep_gsg_simple, excxx_repquote_gsg_repmgr,

excxx_repquote_gsg_simple to Window.[#19890]

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug where memory copied from the Java API could leak if flags were not correctly
configured. [#19152]

Deprecated Features
1.

None

The SQL API has a known issue when using a blob field with a lot of content and multiple
concurrent connections to the database. [#19945]

Rollback of a dropped table in the SQL layer contains a mutex leak, which can consume
all mutex resources if enough rollbacks of table drops are performed. [#20077]

The DB_CONFIG configuration parameters which specify path names currently do not
support names containing any whitespace characters. [#20158]

The BFile module has a known crash issue when using BFile handle for SQL expressions
interface on 64bit platforms. [#20193]

On systems without FTRUNCATE, db_verify will return an error for truncated heap
databases. This is a bug in db_verify, the database has been truncated correctly and can
be used in the future. [#20195]

An application using queue extents which is append mostly could see a decrease in the
buffer pool hit rate due to the failure to remove pages from closed extents from the
buffer pool. [#20217]

Known Bugs

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applications to Berkeley DB 11.2.5.1
Introduction
The following pages describe how to upgrade applications coded against the Berkeley DB
11.2.5.0 library to the Berkeley DB 11.2.5.1 library (both of which belong to Berkeley DB
11g Release 2). This information does not describe how to upgrade Berkeley DB 1.85 release
applications.
For information on the general process of upgrading Berkeley DB installations and upgrade
instructions related to historical releases, see the Berkeley DB Upgrade Guide.

DPL Applications must be recompiled

Applications that use the Java interface's Direct Persistence Layer must be recompiled, due to
a change in the return type of the setter methods in StoreConfig and EvolveConfig classes. The
setter methods now return this instead of void.

Source Tree Rearranged

The source code hierarchy has been reorganized. Source files that belong to Berkeley DB core
are now in a top-level directory named src. Files related to language interfaces are in lang,
and all examples are collected under examples.

SQLite Interface Upgrade

Berkeley DB's SQL interface includes code from SQLite. The version of SQLite used has been
upgraded, so DB SQL is compatible with SQLite version 3.7.0.1. Please see the release notes at
http://sqlite.org/changes.html for further information.

Mod_db4 Support Discontinued

The mod_db4 apache module is no longer included in the release.

Berkeley DB Library Version 11.2.5.1 Change Log

This is the changelog for Berkeley DB 11g Release 2 (library version 11.2.5.1).

Database or Log File On-Disk Format Changes

The database file format was unchanged in 11gR2 library version 11.2.5.1.

The log file format was unchanged in 11gR2 library version 11.2.5.1.

New Features
1.

6/18/2015

Added Performance event monitoring support for DTrace and SystemTap which can be
enabled during configuration. Static probes have been defined where statistics values

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are updated, where mutex or transactional consistency lock waits occur, and where some
other potentially lengthy operations may be initiated. [#15605]
2.

Added a new acknowledge policy - DB_REPMGR_ACKS_ALL_AVAILABLE. [#16762]

Added transactional bulk loading optimization for non-nested transactions. [#17669]

Added exclusive transaction support for the SQL API. [#17822]

Added support for bulk update and delete in C# API. [#18011]

Added a db_replicate utility. [#18326]

Added an implementation of the Online Backup API. [#18500]

Added support in Berkeley DB SQL for the vacuum and incremental vacuum pragmas
[#18545]

Added an option to automatically convert SQLite databases to Berkeley DB on opening.

[#18531]

10. Added BDBSQL_SHARE_PRIVATE, an option to enable inter-process sharing of DB_PRIVATE

environments using multiple-reader. [#18533]
11. Added database-level locking to optimize single-threaded operations and remove locking
limitations for database load operations. [#18549]
12. Added support for DB_INIT_REP, DB_PRIVATE and DB_THREAD in DB_CONFIG file.[#18555]
13. Added support for the BDBSQL_DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE pragma to override Berkeley DB's
choice of page size depending on the filesystem. Use SQLITE_DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE rather
than a hard-coded default. [#18577]
14. Added an extension that allows access to binary files stored outside of the database.
What is stored in the database is a pointer to the binary file. [#18635]
15. Added .stat command to dbsql shell to print environment, table, and index statistics.
[#18640]
16. Added enhancements to reduce the size of indexes in the SQL API by allowing duplicates
in the index database and moving the rowid from the index key into the index data.
[#18653]
17. Added a compile time flag BDBSQL_FILE_PER_TABLE that causes each table to be created
in a separate file. This flag replaces the BDBSQL_SPLIT_META_TABLE flag. [#18664]
18. Added the handling of read only and read write open of the same database in BDB SQL
[#18672]
19. Added an encryption implementation to the SQL API [#18683]

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Database Environment Changes

Fixed failchk behavior on QNX. [#17403]

Fixed a bug that prevented the same process from connecting to the database after
recovery is performed. [#18535]

Fixed a bug which would occur when recovery checkpoint was not written because the
cache ran out of space attempting to flush the memory pool cache. The environment
would be recovered and all database where made available, but some databases would
incorrectly closed. This would cause a subsequent recovery to fail on its backward pass
with the error "PANIC: No such file or directory". [#18590]

Fixed a bug that could cause recovery to fail with the error "DB_LOGC->get: log record
LSN %u/%u: checksum mismatch" if the last log file was nearly full and ended with a
partially written log record which was smaller than a checkpoint record. It now erases the
invalid partial record before switching to the new log file. [#18651]

Concurrent Data Store Changes

None

Access Method Changes

6/18/2015

Fixed a bug such that segementation fault does not occur if DB->set_partition_dirs is
called before DB->set_partition. [#18591]

Fixed a bug such that the error "unknown path" does not occur if you put duplicate
records into a duplicated sorted HASH database with DB_OVERWRITE_DUP option.
[#18607]

Added the ability to specify that data should not be logged when removing pages from
a database. This can be used if the ability to recover the data is not required after the
database has been removed. [#18666]

Fixed a bug that caused an aborting transaction to fail if it aborted while a DB->compact
of the same HASH database was compacting the dynamic hash table [#18695]

Fixed a bug that could cause DB->compact to loop on a DB_RECNO database or a database
with an multilevel unsorted off page duplicate tree. [#18722]

Fixed a bug that could cause an illegal page type error when using a HASH database with
MVCC and the HASH table was contracted and then extended. [#18785]

Fixed locking bugs: [#18789] The Db->compact method of BTREE with MVCC would return
an unpinned page. The RECNO option would fail to lock the next page when splitting a
leaf page.

Fixed a bug that could cause data to not be returned in a HASH database that was one of
multiple databases in a file and was opened prior to running DB->compact method on that
database in another thread of control [#18824]

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Fixed a bug where doing a bulk insert with secondaries could return an error incorrectly.
[#18878]

10. Fixed a bug that would return DB_NOTFOUND instead of DB_BUFFER_SMALL when the first
item in a HASH database is larger than the user supplied buffer. [#18829]

API Changes
1.

Fixed various items uncovered by extending DB_CONFIG support: [#18720] - Added missing
set_cache_max method, and fixed name of log_set_config (was set_log_config). - Added
new DB_ENV->repmgr_get_local_site method. - Fixed a bug which could fail to allocate
enough mutexes when specifying a maximum cache size. - Fixed a bug that could allocate
multiple caches when a small cache size was specified.

SQL-Specific API Changes

Allowed SQL applications to attach to the same database multiple times unless shared
cache mode is explicitly requested. [#18340]

Fixed a bug where auto-removal of log files after writing a checkpoint was not functioning
correctly. [#18413]

Fixed a race between opening and closing SQL databases from multiple threads that
could lead to the error "DB_REGISTER limits processes to one open DB_ENV handle per
environment". [#18538]

Optimized the SQL adapter for joins. Reduce the number of Berkeley DB operations in a
join by caching the maximum key in the primary. [#18566]

A SQLITE_LOCKED or SQLITE_BUSY error returned by a statement in an explict transaction

will no longer invalidate the entire transaction, but just the statement that returned the
error. [#18582]

Changed how multiple connections to the same database are detected. Used a fileid so
that different paths can be used without error. [#18646]

Fixed a bug where the journal (environment) directory was being created prior to the
actual environment. [#18656]

Added a new PRAGMA to allow tuning of when checkpoints are run. [#18657]

Fixed spurious "column <x> not unique" error messages.[#18667]

10. Fixed a segmentation fault that could happen when memory could not be allocated for
the index key in the SQL API.[#18783]
11. Fixed a bug causing a segfault when releasing a savepoint that was already released.
[#18784]

Tcl-Specific API Changes

6/18/2015

Changed to link tcl8.5 by default on Windows[#18244]

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Java-Specific API Changes

Fixed a bug where getAllowPopulate and getImmutableSecondaryKey

method always returned false for SecondaryConfig objects returned by
SecondaryDatabase.getSecondaryConfig method. [#16018]

Fixed a bug which made it impossible to (re)set VerboseConfig.REPLICATION_SYSTEM on

the Java API. [#17561]

Fixed a bug where populating a SecondaryDatabase on open could lead to an

OutOfMemoryException. [#18529]

Fixed a bug such that segementation fault does not occur when putting records into
callback-partitioned database. [#18596]

Fixed a bug where DatabaseConfig.getUnsortedDuplicates method returned true when the

datbase had been configured for sorted duplicates. [#18612]

Initialized DatabaseConfig.pageSize so that it can be queried. [#18691]

Fixed a bug by opening a write cursor for Direct Persistent Layer(DPL) entity's put
operation in the Concurrent Data Store product. [#18692]

Synchronized Java persistence code and tests from Java Edition to Berkeley DB. [#18711]

Introduced the EnvironmentConfig.setReplicationInMemory method as a way to configure

in-memory internal replication files before opening the Environment handle on the Java
API. [#18719]

10. Fixed a bug in the bulk DatabaseEntry class, where it was possible to overflow the buffer.
[#18850]
11. Added LEASE_TIMEOUT field to the ReplicationTimeoutType class that enables configuring
the amount of time a client grants its Master Lease to a master. [#18867]

C#-Specific API Changes

6/18/2015

Fixed a bug in BTree prefix comparison method such that there is no problem when
the application needs to save a number larger than or equal to 2^31. The BTree prefix
comparison function now returns an unsigned int instead of a signed int. [#18481]

Fixed a bug which caused the HasMultiple method to throw an exception when there were
multiple databases in a single database file. [#18483]

Fixed a bug to ensure the CachePriority is set for Database and Cursor objects. [#18716]

Fixed a bug that use leading to the error: "Transaction that opened the DB handle is still
active" when applications used different transactional handles in the associate and open
methods in a secondary database. [#18873]

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Direct Persistence Layer (DPL), Bindings and Collections API

Improve performance of |StoredCollection.removeAll|. This method no longer iterates

over all records in the stored collection. [#17727]

Several new tuple formats and binding classes have been added in the |
com.sleepycat.bind.tuple| package:
Packed integer formats have been added that support default natural sorting. These are
intended to replace the old unsorted packed integer formats.
Two new |BigDecimal| formats have been added. One format supports default natural
sorting. The other format is unsorted, but has other advantages: trailing zeros after the
decimal place are preserved, and a more compact, faster serialization format is used.
See the |com.sleepycat.bind.tuple| package description for an overview of the new
bindings and a comparative description of all tuple bindings. [#18379]

The following classes are now certified to be serializable. [#18738]

com.sleepycat.persist.IndexNotAvailableException
com.sleepycat.persist.StoreExistsException
com.sleepycat.persist.StoreNotFoundException
com.sleepycat.persist.evolve.DeletedClassException
com.sleepycat.persist.evolve.IncompatibleClassException

Replication Changes

6/18/2015

Replication Manager now uses the standard system implementation of getaddrinfo() when
running on Windows, which means that it can support IPv6 addresses if support is present
and configured in the operating system. [#18263]

Fixed a bug which caused a "full election" to fail if a majority of sites were not ready
when the election started. [#18456]

Fixed a bug which could occur when using bulk transfer with Replication Manager. When
closing a DB_ENV handle, any remaining bulk buffer contents are flushed, and Replication
Manager could have tried to send the resulting messages even though its connections had
already been closed, leading in rare circumstances to spurious EBADF error reports, or
possibly even arbitrary memory corruption. [#18469]

Fixed a bug which caused Replication Manager to wait for acknowledgement from client,
even if it had failed to send a log record, due to "queue limit exceeded". Replication
Manager now returns immediately, with a PERM_FAILED indication, to avoid a pointless
delay to the commit() operation. [#18682]

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Fixed a bug where changes made in one process to Replication Manager configuration
values (such as ack policy or ack timeout) were not observed in other processes sharing
the same database environment. [#18839]

Fixed bugs that could prevent client synchronization from completing due to a failure to
request missing log records. [#18849]

Fixed a bug where a client that had rolled back transactions to synchronize with a new
master, failed to invalidate existing database handles later used for cursor operations
based on an explicitly provided transaction. [#18862]

Fixed a bug where Replication Manager called for an election after a DUPMASTER event,
even when using Master Leases. In such a case it now simply accepts the new (remote)
master. [#18864]

Fixed a bug which would cause failure if client env attempted to perform sync-up
recovery to a point in the log that happened to fall exactly on a log file boundary.
[#18907]

Locking Subsystem Changes

Moved the wait mutex from the lock structure to the locker structure, reducing the
number of mutexes required in the system. [#18685]

Logging Subsystem Changes

None.

Memory Pool Subsystem Changes

Fixed a race condition that was causing the error: "Unable to allocate space from the
buffer cache". The error can only be triggered when multiple memory pool regions are
used and there is a periodic gathering and clearing of statistics. This also fixes a second
bug where if you compile without statistics and explicitly set the memoru pool default
pagesize, other environment handles to that environment would not see the correct
memory pool default pagesize. [#18386]

Fixed a bug where the get_cachesize method and the mpool_stat method returned the
initial cache size, even if the cache size had been changed. [#18706]

Changed memory pool allocation so that the EIO error is returned rather than the ENOMEM
error when the memory cannot be allocated because dirty pages cannot be written.
[#18740]

Mutex Subsystem Changes

6/18/2015

Fixed problems with the printed statistics for DB_MUTEX_SHARED latches. The
DB_STAT_CLEAR flag (as specified by db_stat -Z) did not clear the counts of the number of
times a shared latch either had to wait to get access or was able to get the latch without
waiting. Also, the ownership state of a test-and-set latch (not a hybrid one) was always
displayed as not owned, even when it was held. [#17585] [#18743]

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Transaction Subsystem Changes

Fixed bugs that could caused PANIC or DB_RUNRECOVERY errors when the synchronization
of the transaction log failed. [#18588]

Fix javadoc to note the exception to the rule that a transaction handle may not be
accessed after commit() operaton (getCommitToken() is allowed). [#18730]

Test Suite Changes

None. [#18831]

Utility Changes
1.

Modified the db_printlog and db_dump -da so that they use the same formatting. The
db_logprint utility now uses the message stream. Both db_dump -da and db_printlog
accept a -D flag to indicate the numer of bytes of data items to display. You can set this
value when calling the DB_ENV->set_data_len method or in the DB_CONFIG. [#18365]

Fixed a bug that caused a segmentation violation when using the db_printlog utility.
[#18694]

Fixed a bug in db_hotbackup that would cause a trap if the -D flag is used and the
DB_CONFIG file does not specify a log directory. [#18841]

Configuration, Documentation, Sample Apps, Portability, and Build Changes

Added support and documentation for iPhone OS. [#18223]

Fix a bug to make the configuration option --enable-debug work when CFLAGS is set.
[#18432]

Updated Visual Studio project files to enable ADO.NET support. [#18448]

Enhanced the source tree layout making it easier to navigate. [#18492]

Fixed the --enable-dbm argument to configure. [#18497]

Fixed Visual Studio project files so that they can load into Visual Studio 2010. [#18505]

Updated Windows CE build files to be consistent with desktop Windows build files. Added
Windows Mobile 6.5.3 Professional as a target platform. [#18516]

Added a fix so that an error message is displayed when the 'ar' utility is missing when
configured. [#18619]

Added tighter integration of JDBC on POSIX/autoconf by including an argument --enablejdbc to configure. [#18621]

10. Fix build conflicts in log verify with other configurations. [#18658]
11. Upgraded Berkeley DB SQL to SQLite version 3.7.0 [#18857]

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Example Changes
1.

Renamed examples/c/bench_001 to examples/c/ex_bulk. [#18537]

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

Provided a functionality on the Windows platform to choose a default page size based on
the underlying file system sector size. [#16538]

Changed DB_NOSYNC from an "operation" constant to a flag value. [#17775]

Changed the default permissions for files in the release tree to allow write access.
[#17974]

Fixed a bug which caused database verification to hang when verifying a database in a
Concurrent Data Store environment that performs locking on an environment-wide basis
(DB_CDB_ALLDB.) [#18571]

Deprecated Features
1.

[#18871] Removed the mod_db4 PHP/Apache wrapper. It only supported Apache 1.3 and
has not been actively supported. Use php_db4 instead.

None

Known Bugs

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applications to Berkeley DB 11.2.5.0
Introduction
The following pages describe how to upgrade applications coded against the Berkeley DB 4.8
release interfaces to the Berkeley DB 11g Release 2 interfaces. (Library version 11.2.5.0). This
information does not describe how to upgrade Berkeley DB 1.85 release applications.

db_sql Renamed to db_sql_codegen

The db_sql utility is now called db_sql_codegen. This command line utility is not built by
default. To build db_sql_codegen, specify --enable-sql_codegen when configuring Berkeley
DB.

DB_REP_CONF_NOAUTOINIT Replaced
In this release, the DB_REP_CONF_NOAUTOINIT flag is replaced by the DB_REP_CONF_AUTOINIT
flag. This option is ON by default. To turn off automatic internal initialization, call the
DB_ENV->rep_set_config method with the which parameter set to DB_REP_CONF_AUTOINIT
and the onoff parameter set to zero.

Support for Multiple Client-to-Client Peers

A Berkeley DB Replication Manager application can now designate one or more remote sites
(called its "peers") to receive client-to-client requests.
In previous releases, there could be only one peer at a time. If you called the DB_ENV>repmgr_add_remote_site method specifying site "A" as a peer and you made another call
specifying site "B" as a peer, site "B" would become the only peer, and site "A" would no longer
be a peer.
Starting with Berkeley DB 11gR2, the same sequence of calls results in both site "A" and site
"B" being possible peers. Replication Manager may select any of a site's possible peers to use
for client-to-client requests. If the first peer that the Replication Manager selects cannot be
used (for example, it is unavailable or it is the current master), Replication Manager attempts
to use a different peer if there is more than one peer.
To get the pre-11gR2 peer behavior in this example, you must make an additional call to the
DB_ENV->repmgr_add_remote_site method, specifying site "A" and a flag value that excludes
the DB_REPMGR_PEER bit value to remove site "A" as a possible peer.

Cryptography Support
In this release, the configuration options, --disable-cryptography and --enable-cryptography
are deprecated. --disable-cryptography is replaced by --with-cryptography=no and --enablecryptography is replaced by --with-cryptography=yes.

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To build Berkeley DB with support for cryptography, enter --with-cryptography=yes as an

argument to configure instead of --enable-cryptography.
To build Berkeley DB without support for cryptography, enter --with-cryptography=no as an
argument to configure instead of --disable-cryptography.
Berkeley DB now supports encryption using Intel's Performance Primitive (IPP) on Linux. To
build Berkeley DB with support for cryptography using Intel's Performance Primitive (IPP)
library, enter --with-cryptography=ipp as an argument to configure.
Note: The --with-cryptography=ipp argument works only on Linux.

DB_NOSYNC Flag to Flush Files

Applications must now pass the DB_NOSYNC flag to the methods - DB->remove, DB->rename,
DB_ENV->dbremove, and DB_ENV->dbrename, to avoid a multi-database file to be flushed
from cache. This flag is applicable if you have created the database handle in a nontransactional environment.
By default, all non-transactional database remove/rename operations cause data to be synced
to disk. This can now be overridden using the DB_NOSYNC flag so that files can be accessed
outside the environment after the database handles are closed.

Dropped Support
Berkeley DB no longer supports Visual Studio 6.0. The earliest version supported is Visual
Studio 2005. The build files for Windows Visual Studio 6.0 are removed.
Berkeley DB no longer supports Win9X, Windows Me (Millenium edition), and Windows NT 4.0.
The minimum supported windows platform is Windows 2000.

Changing Stack Size

Prior to the 11gR2 release, Berkeley DB limited the stack size for threads it created using
the POSIX thread API to 128 KB for 32-bit platforms and 256 KB for 64-bit platforms. In this
release, the system default stack size is used unless you run the Berkeley DB configure script
with the --with-stacksize=SIZE argument to override the default.

Berkeley DB 11g Release 2 Change Log

Changes between 11.2.5.0.26 and 11.2.5.0.32

6/18/2015

Added Visual Studio 2010 support. Users can find Visual Studio 2010 solutions and projects
on build_windows. [#18889]

Fixed a leak of log file ids when a database is closed before the end of a transaction that
references it. [#15957]

Fixed a race condition that was causing an "unable to allocate space from the buffer
cache" error. The error can only be triggered when multiple mpool regions are used

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and there is a periodic gathering and clearing of statistics. This also fixes a second bug
where if you compile without statistics and explicitly set the mpool default pagesize,
other environment handles to that environment would not see the correct mpool default
pagesize. [#18386]
4.

Fix failure to flush pages to disk. [#18760]

Fix a general I/O problem on Windows where system doesn't always return ENOENT when
file is missing. [#18762]

Fixed locking bugs: [#18789]

Db->compact of BTREE with MVCC could return an unpinned page.
RECNO would fail to lock the next page when splitting a leaf page.

Don't await ack if message not sent due to queue limit exceeded. [#18682]

Fixed a bug that could cause data to not be returned in a HASH database that was one
of multiple databases in a file and it was opened prior to running DB->compact on that
database in another thread of control [#18824]

Return HANDLE_DEAD on cursor creation that names a specific txn after client callback.
[#18862]

10. Remove parting_shot rep_start(CLIENT) in election thread because it can occasionally

conflict with rep_start(MASTER) in another thread. [#18946]
11. Fixed a bug that would cause handle locks to be left referencing the wrong metadata
page if DB->compact moved the metadata page of a sub-database. [#18944]
12. Fixed a bug that might cause an update to a HASH database to fail with an "unpinned page
returned" error if it first gets an I/O error while logging. [#18985]
13. Fixed a bug that failed to dirty a page when DB->compact moved records within a hash
bucket [#18994]
14. Fixed a bug in page allocation where if a non-transactional update was being done, then
we release the metadata page lock too early possibly leading to the corruption of the in
memory page list used by DB->compact. [#19036]
15. A log write failure on a replication master will now cause a panic since the transaction
may be committed on some clients. [#19054]
16. Removed the possibility that checkpoints will overlap in the log, decreasing the time to
recover [#19062]
17. Fixed a bug that could leave a hash bucket overflow page not linked to the bucket if the
unlink of that page aborted. [#19001]
18. Fixed a bug that would leave the next page pointer of a hash bucket that was removed
pointing to an invalid page. [#19004]

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19. Fixed several bugs that could cause an update running with MVCC to get the wrong version
of a page or improperly update the metadata last page number. [#19063]
20. Fixed a bug where an error during an update to a hash database with DB_NOOVERWRITE
set could return DB_KEYEXIST rather than the correct error. [#19077]
21. Fixed a bug where an updater supporting DB_READ_UNCOMMITED might downgrade its
lock too soon if there was an error during the update [#19155]
22. Fixed a bug that could cause the wrong page number to be on a root or metadata page if
DB->compact moved the page and the operation was later rolled forward [#19167]
23. Fixed a bug that could cause the close of a secondary index database to fail if the
transaction doing the open aborted [#19169]
24. The database open code will no longer log the open and close of the master database in a
file when opening a sub database in that file [#19071]

Changes between 11.2.5.0.21 and 11.2.5.0.26

Fixed a bug that might cause recovery to fail if processed part of the log that had
previously been recovered and a database which was not present was opened in the log
and not closed. [#18459]

Fixed a bug in C# HasMultiple() that this function always throws exceptions when there
are multiple databases in a single db file. [#18483]

Fixed the '--enable-dbm' argument to configure. [#18497]

Fixed a bug in the Java API where populating a SecondaryDatabase on open could lead to
an OutOfMemoryException. [#18529]

Fixed a bug where DB SQL reports "The database disk image is malformed" in "group by"
operations. [#18531]

Fixed a bug that prevented the same process from reconnecting to the database when
DB_REGISTER is being used. [#18535]

Fix a race between opening and closing SQL databases from multiple threads that
could lead to the error "DB_REGISTER limits processes to one open DB_ENV handle per
environment". [#18538]

Fixed some bugs that could cause a panic or a DB_RUN_RECOVERY error if the sync of the
transaction log failed. [#18588]

10. Fixed a bug which would occur when recovery checkpoint was not written because the
cache ran out of space attempting to flush the mpool cache. The environment was

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recovered and all database where made available, but some databases were incorrectly
closed. This would cause a subsequent recovery to fail on its backward pass with the error
"PANIC: No such file or directory". [#18590]
11. Fixed a bug that segementation fault would occur if DB->set_partition_dirs was called
before DB->set_partition. [#18591]
12. Fixed a bug that the error of "unknown path" would occur if putting duplicate records to
duplicated sorted hash database with DB_OVERWRITE_DUP.[#18607]
13. Fixed a bug where DatabaseConfig.getUnsortedDuplicates() returned true when the
datbase had been configured for sorted duplicates. [#18612]
14. Fixed a bug that could cause recovery to fail with the error "DB_LOGC->get: log record
LSN %u/%u: checksum mismatch" if the last log file was nearly full and ended with a
partially written log record which was smaller than a checkpoint record. It now erases the
invalid partial record before switching to the new log file. [#18651]
15. Initialize DatabaseConfig.pageSize so that it can be queried from Java. [#18691]
16. Fixed a bug that might cause an aborting transaction to fail if it aborted while a DB>compact of the same HASH database was compacting the dynamic hash table [#18695]

Changes between 4.8 and 11.2.5.0.21

Database or Log File On-Disk Format Changes
1.

The log file format changed in 11.2.5.0.21

Replication Manager sites can specify one or more possible client-to-client peers. [#14776]

Added resource management feature in all Berkeley DB APIs to automatically manage

cursor and database handles by closing them when they are not required, if they are not
yet closed.[#16188]

Added a SQL interface to the Berkeley DB library. The interface is based on - and a dropin-replacement for - the SQLite API. It can be accessed via a command line utility, a C
API, or existing APIs built for SQLite. [#16809]

Added hash databases support to the DB->compact interface. [#16936]

Renamed the "db_sql" utility to "db_sql_codegen". This utility is not built by default. To
build this utility, enter --enable-sql_codegen as an argument to configure. [#18265]

Added transactional support in db_sql_codegen utility. Specify TRANSACTIONAL or

NONTRANSACTIONAL in hint comments in SQL statement, db_sql_codegen enable/disable
transaction in generated code accordingly. [#17237]

Added the feature read-your-writes consistency that allows client application to check, or
wait for a specific transaction to be replicated from the master before reading database.
[#17323]

New Features

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Added DB log verification feature, accessible via the API and a new utility. This feature
can help debugging and analysis. [#17420]

Added support for applications to assign master/client role explicitly at any time.
Replication Manager can now be configured not to initiate elections. [#17484]

10. Enhanced the DB->compact method so that it can reassign metadata and root pages from
subdatabases to lower numbered pages while compacting a database file that contains
multiple databases. This feature helps to free the higher numbered pages and truncate
the file. [#17554]
11. Added system diagnostic messages that are ON by default. [#17561]
12. Added the feature to assign a priority level to transactions. When resolving a deadlock:
if the transactions have differing priority, the lowest priority transaction is aborted
if all transactions have the same priority, the same poilcy that existed before priorities
were introduced is used [#17604]
13. Added a feature in which log_archive uses group-wide information for archiving purposes
if Replication Manager is in use. [#17664]
14. Added a feature by which the Replication Manager application clients now automatically
request any missing information, even when there is no master transaction activity.
[#17665]
15. Added support for sharing logs across mixed-endian systems. [#18032]
16. Added an option to specify the first and last pages to the db_dump utility. You can do this
by providing -F and -L flags to the db_dump -d option. [#18072]
17. Added Intel Performance Primitive (IPP) AES encryption support. [#18110]
18. Removed support for the configuration option --with-mutex=UNIX/fcntl as of version 4.8.
If Berkeley DB was configured to use this type of mutex in an earlier release, switch to a
different mutex type or contact Oracle for support. [#18361]
Database Environment Changes

6/18/2015

Fixed a bug to reflect the correct configuration of the logging subsystem when the
DB_ENV->log_set_config method is called with the DB_LOG_ZERO flag in a situation where
a DB_ENV handle is open and an environment exists. [#17532]

Fixed a bug to prevent memory leak caused when the environment is closed by the named
in-memory database in a private database environment which has open named in-memory
databases. [#17816]

Fixd a race condition in an internal directory-scanning function that returns the ENOENT
("No such file or directory") error, if a file is removed just before a call to stat() or its
eqivalent. [#17850]

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Access Method Changes

Fixed a bug to prevent a page in the hash database from carrying the wrong header
information when a group allocation is rolled forward by recovery. [#15414]

Improved the sort function for bulk put operations. [#17440]

Fixed a bug in the DB->compact method to ensure locking of leaf pages when merging
higher level interior nodes or when freeing interior nodes when descending to find a nonzero length key. [#17485][#16466]

Fixed a bug to prevent a trap if a cursor is opened or closed when another thread is
adjusting cursors due to an update in the same database. [#17602]

Fixed a bug that incorrectly lead to the error message "library build did not include
support for the Hash access method" [#17672]

Fixed a bug to ensure that the DB->exists method accepts the DB_AUTO_COMMIT flag.
[#17687]

In the past, removing a database from a multi-database file that was opened in an
environment always caused dirty pages in the file to be flushed from the cache. In this
release, there is no implicit flush as part of a DB->remove for handles opened in an
environment. Applications that expect the database file to be flushed will need to add an
explicit flush. [#17775]

Fixed a bug so that the code does not loop if a DB->compact operation processed a 3 or
more level non-sorted off page duplicate tree. [#17831]

Fixed a bug that could leave pages pinned in the cache if an allocation failed during a DB>compact operation. [#17845]

10. Fixed a bug to ensure sequences are closed when an EntityStore is closed. [#17951]
11. Fixed a bug that prevented retrieval of a non-duplicate record with DB_GET_BOTH_RANGE
in hash sorted duplicate db. In a database configured with sorted duplicate support, when
the DBcursor->get method is passed the DB_GET_BOTH_RANGE flag, the data item should
be retrieved that is the smallest value greater than or equal to the value provided by the
data parameter (as determined by the comparison function). [#17997]
12. Fixed a bug that causes the wrong file to be removed if multiple cascading renames are
done in the same transaction. [#18069]
13. Fixed a bug to prevent the DB->compact method specified with the DB_AUTO_COMMIT
flag from acquiring too many locks. [#18072]
14. Fixed a bug that might cause DB->compact on a DB_BTREE database to get a spurious
read lock on the metadata page. If the database was opened non-transactionally the lock
would get left behind. [#18257]
15. Fixed a bug that could lead to btree structure corruption if the DB->compact method ran
out of locks [#18361]

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16. Fixed a bug that would generate an error if a non-BDB file was used to create a database
and the DB_TRUNCATE flag was specified. [#18373]
17. Fixed a bug that might cause a trap reading unitialized memory when backing out a merge
of a duplicate tree leaf page during DB->compact. [#18461]
Locking Subsystem Changes
1.

Fixed a bug to ensure deadlock detection works even when there are blocked
transactions, configured with and without timeouts. [#17555]

Fixed a bug to ensure a call to the DB->key_range method from outside a transaction does
not lock pages. [#17930]

Fixed a bug that could cause a segmentation fault if the lock manager ran out of mutexes
[#18428]

Logging Subsystem Changes

Limited the size of a log record generated by freeing pages from a database, so that it fits
in the log file size. [#17313]

Memory Pool Subsystem Changes

Fixed a bug to ensure mulitple versions of a buffer are not created when MVCC is not set.
[#17495]

Fixed a bug to detect if cache size is being set when the cache is not configured. [#17556]

Fixed a bug to ensure the error message "unable to allocate space from the buffer cache"
generated when there is still some space available, can be cleared by running recovery.
[#17630]

Fixed a race condition that causes an operation to return EPERM when the buffer cache is
nearly filled with pages belonging to recently closed queue extents. [#17840]

Fixed a bug that could cause a page needed by a snapshot reader to be overwritten rather
than copied when it was freed. [#17973]

Enabled set_mp_pagesize to be specified in the DB_CONFIG file. [#18015]

Fixed a bug to ensure single-version or obsolete buffers were selected over any
intermediate version. [#18114]

Mutex Subsystem Changes

6/18/2015

Fixed a bug on HP-UX when specifying --with-mutex=HP/msem_init during configure.

It would generate the error "TAS: mutex not appropriately aligned" at runtime, when
initializing the first mutex. [#17489]

Fixed a race condition which could cause unnecessary retrying of btree searches when
several threads simulatenously attempted to get a shared latch. [#18078]

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Exclusive Transactions have been implemented for the SQL API. See the documentation
for details on the behavior of this feature. [#17822]

Tcl-specific API Changes

Fixed a bug in Tcl API to prevent a segmentation fault from occurring when the
get_dbname method is called to get the db name and the db handle is opened without
providing either the filename or dbname. [#18037]

C#-specific API Changes

Fixed a bug in C# to prevent a System.AccessViolationException from occurring on

Windows7 when trying to open new database. [#18422]

Fixed a bug in the C# API to make DB_COMPACT consistent with __db_compact in teh C
API. [#18246]

Added the dbstl_thread_exit method to release thread specific resouces on thread exit.
[#17595]

Fixed the parser to allow configuration API flags set in the DB_CONFIG file to accept an
optional ON/OFF string. The DB_REP_CONF_NOAUTOINIT flag has been removed. It is
replaced by DB_REP_CONF_AUTOINIT. However, replication's default behavior remains the
same. [#17795]

API Changes

Replication Changes

6/18/2015

Fixed bug where a not-in-sync client could service a peer request. [#18279]

Fixed bug where page gaps, once filled, would not immediately request the next page gap
it finds. This was already fixed for logs. [#18219]

Fixed a bug so that only one thread waits for the meta-page lock during internal
initialization and broadcasts out the information rather than all threads waiting. Removed
the former retry code. [#17871]

Added a feature by which the DB->open method now allows the DB_CREATE flag on a
replication client. It is ignored, but this allows a replication application to make one call
that can work on either master or client. It fixes a possible race that could develop in a
Replication Manager application if a call to DB->open is made around the same time as a
master/client role change. [#15167]

The DB_ENV->repmgr_site_list method now returns an indication on whether the site is a

client-to-client peer. [#16113]

Fixed a bug that could occasionally lead to elections failing to complete. [#17105]

Fixed a bug that could cause DB_ENV->txn_stat to trap. [#17198]

Added a new JOIN_FAILURE event to notify Replication Manager applications which refuse
auto-initialization. [#17319]

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Fixed a bug where a failed master lease check at a client site causes an ASSERT when
processing a master lease grant at the master site. [#17869]

10. Fixed a bug to ensure a second simultaneous call to the DB_ENV->rep_elect method does
not incorrectly clear a bit flag. [#17875]
11. Fixed a bug in client-side autoremoval of log files. [#17899]
12. Removed the likelihood of dual data streams to enhance network traffic. [#17955]
13. Fixed a bug such that non-txn dup cursors are accounted for in the replication API
lockout. [#18080]
14. Fixed a bug to ensure checking for other sync states for the rerequest thread. [#18126]
15. Fixed a bug to avoid getting stuck in an election forever. [#18151]
16. Fixed a bug where using client-to-client synchronization with Master Leases could have
resulted in failure of a new master to get initial lease grants from sufficient number of
clients, resulting in a master environment panic. [#18254]
17. Fixed a bug which had prevented Replication Manager socket operations from working on
HP/UX systems. [#18382]
18. Fixed a bug where starting as a client in multiple threads after receiving dupmaster
messages could have resulted in a failure to find a new log file, resulting in a panic.
[#18388]
19. The default thread stack size is no longer overridden by default for Berkeley DB threads.
[#18383]
Transaction Subsystem Changes
1.

Fixed a bug that caused transactions to deadlock on the mutex in the sequence object.
[#17731]

Fixed a bug to ensure that the failure checking mechanism reconstructs child transactions
correctly when a process dies with active sub-transactions. [#18154]

Removed a memory leak during recovery related to a deleted database [#18273]

Utility Changes

6/18/2015

Fixed compiler warnings in the db_sql_codegen utility. [#17503]

Enhanced the db_recover -v utility to display the message, "No log files found", if no logs
are present. [#17504]

Modified the db_verify utility to verify all files instead of aborting on the first failure.
[#17513]

Modified the db_verify utility to display a message after verification is completed.

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Fixed a bug in the db_sql_codegen utility where the primary key is stored in both key and
data fields. Removed it from the data field. [#17925]

Example Changes
1.

Fixed a bug that causes the ex_txn C# example to hang. [#17376]

Fixed Solaris alignment issues in Stl port test code. [#17459]

Added GCC 4.4 compatibility support for all examples. [#17584]

Added new command line arguments(-h and -d) to the env examples. [#17624]

Fixed configuration problems related to running java API tests. [#17625]

Updated the bench_001 example to include bulk testing examples. [#17766]

Added a new Stl example to demo advanced feature usage. The Stl test cases referred
earlier are replaced by these new examples in the Stl reference document. [#18175]

Deprecated Features
1.

The configuration options --disable-cryptography and --enable-cryptoraphy are being

deprecated. [#18110]

Configuration, Documentation, Sample Apps, Portability and Build Changes

6/18/2015

Remove build files for Windows Visual Studio 6.0. [#16848]

Added an API, DBENV->db_full_version, to return db full version.

Berkeley DB no longer supports Win9X, Windows Me (Millenium edition) and NT 4.0. The
minimum supported windows platform is Win 2k.

Berkeley DB no longer supports Visual Studio 6.0. The earliest version supported is Visual
Studio 2005.

Added "+u1" to CFLAGS for HP ANSI C Compiler on HP-UX(IA64) to fix the alignment issue
found with the allocation functions DB->set-alloc and DB_ENV->set_alloc. [#17257]

Fixed a bug such that the thread local storage (TLS) definition modifier is correctly
deduced from the m4 script on all platforms. [#17609][#17713]

Fixed a bug such that TLS key is not initialized on platforms which do not support thread
local storage (TLS) keywords, such as MAC OSX, and where TLS is implemented using
pthread API. [#18001]

Fixed a bug to ensure that when using Intel C++ compiler (icpc), the TLS code builds
successfully. A stricter criteria is adopted to deduce the TLS keyword, and hence pthread
API is more likely to be used to implement TLS. [#18038]

Adding new configuration option, --with-cryptography={yes|no|ipp}. Using --withcryptography=yes, will give equivalent behavior to the old --enable-cryptography

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option. Using --with-cryptography=no, will give equivalent behavior to the old --disablecryptography option. Using --with-cryptograhy=ipp will enable Intel's Performance
Primitive (IPP) encryption on linux. [#18110]

Known Bugs

6/18/2015

The configure option --with-uniquename may cause macro redefinition warnings on

platforms where BDB implements parts of the standard C library. These warnings (e.g.,
'"db_int_def.h", line 586: warning: macro redefined: strsep') may occur when functions in
the "clib" directory are included during configuration. This cosmetic affect does not affect
the correct operation of the library. [#17172]

A multithreaded application using a private environment and multi-version concurrency

control could, on very rare occasions, generate an illegal pointer access error during the
final steps of a clean environment shutdown. [#17507]

Although rare, it is possible for a partial log record header at the end of a transaction log
to be erroneously accepted as if it were valid, causing the error "Illegal record type 0 in
log" during recovery. [#17851]

It is possible to get the error "unable to allocate space from the buffer cache" when there
are disk errors on the freezer files used by multi-version concurrency control . [#17902]

Java API does not support partitioning by keys and the C# API doesn't support partitioning.
[#18350]

If a database is removed from an environment and it was still opened transactionally and
recovery is run, then a future recovery that must process that part of the log may fail.
[#18459]

Replication "bulk transfer" does not work if Berkeley DB is unable to determine, at

environment open time, whether the Replication Manager will be used. To work
around this problem, an application using the Replication Manager should call DB_ENV>repmgr_set_local_site() before opening the environment. An application using the
replication Base API should call DB_ENV->rep_set_transport() before opening the
environment. [#18476]

The BTree prefix comparison function behaves slightly differently in the C API vs the C#
API. In the C# API it returns a signed int and in the C API it returns an unsigned int. This
can be a problem if the application needs to save more than 2^31 bytes.

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applications to Berkeley DB 4.8
Introduction
The following pages describe how to upgrade applications coded against the Berkeley DB
4.7 release interfaces to the Berkeley DB 4.8 release interfaces. This information does not
describe how to upgrade Berkeley DB 1.85 release applications.

Registering DPL Secondary Keys

Entity subclasses that define secondary keys must now be registered prior to storing an
instance of the class. This can be done in two ways:
The EntityModel.registerClass() method may be called to register the subclass before
opening the entity store.
The EntityStore.getSubclassIndex() method may be called to implicitly register the
subclass after opening the entity store.
Failure to register the entity subclass will result in an IllegalArgumentException the first
time an attempt is made to store an instance of the subclass. An exception will not occur if
instances of the subclass have previously been stored, which allows existing applications to
run unmodified in most cases.
This behavioral change was made to increase reliability. In several cases, registering an entity
subclass has been necessary as a workaround. The requirement to register the subclass will
ensure that such errors do not occur in deployed applications.

Minor Change in Behavior of DB_MPOOLFILE->get

DB 4.8 introduces some performance enhancements, based on the use of shared/exclusive
latches instead of locks in some areas of the internal buffer management code. This change
will affect how the DB_MPOOL interface handles dirty buffers.
Because of these changes, DB_MPOOLFILE->get will now acquire an exclusive latch on the
buffer if the DB_MPOOL_DIRTY or DB_MPOOL_EDIT flags are specified. This could lead to an
application deadlock if the application tries to fetch the buffer again, without an intervening
DB_MPOOLFILE->put call.
If your application uses the DB_MPOOL interface, and especially the DB_MPOOL_DIRTY and
DB_MPOOL_EDIT flags, you should review your code to ensure that this behavior change does
not cause your application to deadlock.

Dropped Support for fcntl System Calls

Berkeley DB no longer supports mutex implementations based on the fcntl system call. If you
have been configuring Berkeley DB to use this type of mutex, you need to either switch to a
different mutex type or contact the Berkeley DB team for support.

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Upgrade Requirements
The log file format changed in the Berkeley DB 4.8 release.
No database formats changed in the Berkeley DB 4.8 release.
The Berkeley DB 4.8 release does not support live replication upgrade from the 4.2 or 4.3
releases, only from the 4.4 and later releases.
For further information on upgrading Berkeley DB installations, see the Berkeley DB Upgrade
Guide.

Berkeley DB 4.8.28 Change Log

Changes between 4.8.26 and 4.8.28:
1.

Limit the size of a log record generated by freeing pages from a database so it fits in the
log file size. [#17313]

Fix a bug that could cause a file to be removed if it was both the source and target of two
renames within a transaction. [#18069]

Modified how we go about selecting a usable buffer in the cache. Place more emphasis on
single version and obsolete buffers. [#18114]

Known bugs in 4.8

Sharing logs across mixed-endian systems does not work.[#18032]

Changes between 4.8.24 and 4.8.26:

6/18/2015

Fixed a bug where the truncate log record could be too large when freeing too many
pages during a compact. [#17313]

Fixed a bug where the deadlock detector might not run properly. [#17555]

Fixed three bugs related to properly detecting thread local storage for DbStl. [#17609]
[#18001] [#18038]

Fixed a bug that prevented some of our example code from running correctly in a
Windows environment. [#17627]

Fixed a bug where a "unable to allocate space from buffer cache" error was improperly
generated. [#17630]

Fixed a bug where DB->exists() did not accept the DB_AUTO_COMMIT flag. [#17687]

Fixed a bug where DB_TXN_SNAPSHOT was not getting ignored when DB_MULTIVERSION
not set. [#17706]

Fixed a bug that prevented callback based partitioning through the Java API. [#17735]

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Fixed a replication bug where log files were not automatically removed from the client
side. [#17899]

10. Fixed a bug where code generated from db_sql stored the key in both the data and key
DBTs. [#17925]
11. Fixed a bug that prevented a sequence from closing properly after the EntityStore closed.
[#17951]
12. Fixed a bug where gets fail if the DB_GET_BOTH_FLAG is specified in a hash, sorted
duplicates database.[#17997]

Changes between 4.8.21 and 4.8.24:

Fixed a bug in the C# API where applications in a 64-bit environment could hang. [#17461]

Fixed a bug in MVCC where an exclusive latch was not removed when we couldn't obtain a
buffer. [#17479]

Fixed a bug where a lock wasn't removed on a non-transactional locker. [#17509]

Fixed a bug which could trigger an assertion when performing a B-tree page split and
running out of log space or with MVCC enabled. [#17531]

Fixed a bug in the repquote example that could cause the application to crash. [#17547]

Fixed a couple of bugs when using the GCC 4.4 compiler to build the examples and the
dbstl API. [#17504] [#17476]

Fixed an incorrect representation of log system configuration info. [#17532]

Changes between 4.7 and 4.8.21:

Database or Log File On-Disk Format Changes:
1.

The log file format changed in 4.8.

New Features:

6/18/2015

Improved scalability and throughput when using BTree databases especially when running
with multiple threads that equal or exceed the number of available CPUs.

Berkeley DB has added support for C#. In addition to the new C# api, C# specific tests and
sample applications were also added. [#16137]

Berkeley DB has added an STL API, which is compatible with and very similar to C++
Standard Template Library (STL). Tests and sample applications and documentation were
also added. [#16217]

Berkeley DB has added database partitioning. BTree or Hash databases may now be
partitioned across multiple directories. Partitioned databases can be used to increase

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concurrency and to improve performance by spreading access across disk subsystems.

[#15862]
5.

Berkeley DB now supports bulk insertion and deletion of data. Similar to the bulk get
interface, the bulk put and bulk delete allow the developer to populate a buffer of keyvalue pairs and then pass it to the BDB library with a single API call.

Berkeley DB now supports compression when using BTree.

Berkeley DB introduces a new utility named db_sql which replaces db_codegen. Similar
to db_codegen, db_sql accepts an input file with DDL statements and generates a
Berkeley DB application using the C API that creates and performs CRUD operations on the
defined tables. The developer can then use that code as a basis for further application
development.

The Replication Manager now supports shared access to the Master database environment
from multiple processes. In earlier versions, multiple process support on the Master
required use of the Base Replication API. [#15982]

Foreign Key Support has been added to Berkeley DB.

10. Several enhancements were made to DB_REGISTER & DB_ENV->failchk().

11. Berkeley now supports 100% in-memory replication.
12. Berkeley DB now has the ability to compare two cursors for equality. [#16811]

Database Environment Changes:

Fixed a bug that could cause an allocation error while trying to allocate thread tracking
information for the DB_ENV->failcheck system. [#16300]

Fixed a bug that could cause a trap if an environment open failed and failchk thread
tracking was enabled.[#16770]

Concurrent Data Store Changes:

None.

General Access Method Changes:

6/18/2015

Fixed a bug where doing an insert with secondary indices and the NOOVERWRITE flag
could corrupt the secondary index. [#15912]

Fixed a possible file handle leak that occurred while aborting the create of a database
whose metadata page was not initialized. [#16359]

Fixed a bug so that we now realloc the filename buffer only if we need it to grow.
[#16385] [#16219]

Fixed a race freeing a transaction object when using MVCC. [#16381]

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Added missing get methods for the DB and DB_ENV classes where there already was a
corresponding set method. [#16505]

Fixed a bug to now ensure that DB_STAT_SUBSYSTEM is distinct from other stat flags.
[#16798]

Fixed a bug related to updating multiple secondary keys (using DB_MULTIPLE). [#16885]

Fixed a bug so that verify (db->verify, db_verify) will now report when it cannot read a
page rather than just saying the database is bad. [#16916]

Fixed a bug that could cause memory corruption if a transaction allocating a page aborted
while DB->compact was running on that database. [#16862]

10. Fixed a bug where logging was occurring during remove of an in-memory database when
the DB_TXN_NOT_DURABLE flag was set. [#16571]
11. Fixed a bug to remove a race condition during database/file create. [#17020]
12. Fixed a bug where a call to DB->verify and specifying DB_SALVAGE could leak memory
when the call returned. [#17161]
13. Fixed a bug to avoid accessing freed memory during puts on primaries with custom
comparators. [#17189]
14. Fixed a bug that could cause old versions of pages to be written over new versions if an
existing database is opened with the DB_TRUNCATE flag. [#17191]

Btree Access Method Changes:

Fixed a bug which could cause DB->compact to fail with DB_NOTFOUND or

DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND if the height of the tree was reduced by another thread while
compact was active. The bug could also cause a page split to trigger splitting of internal
nodes which did not need to be split. [#16192]

Fixed a bug that caused Db->compact to loop if run on an empty RECNO database when
there were pages in the free list. [#16778]

Added a new flag, DB_OVERWRITE_DUP, to DB->put and DBC->put. This flag is equivalent
to DB_KEYLAST in almost all cases: the exception is that with sorted duplicates, if a
matching key/data pair exists, we overwrite it rather than returning DB_KEYEXIST.
[#16803]

Hash Access Method Changes:

6/18/2015

Fixed a bug to now force a group allocation that rolls forward to reinit all the pages.
Otherwise a previous aborted allocation may change the header. [#15414]

Fixed a bug to now return the expected buffer size on a DB_BUFFER_SMALL condition.
[#16881]

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Queue Access Method Changes:

Fixed a bug that would cause the LSN reset functionality to not process queue extents.
[#16213]

Fixed a bug that prevented a partial put on a queue database with secondaries
configured. [#16460]

Fixed a bug to now prevent an unpinned page to be returned if a delete from a HASH
database deadlocked. [#16371]

Fixed a bug that could cause a queue extent to be recreated if an application deleted a
record that was already deleted in that extent. [#17004]

Added the DB_CONSUME flag to DB->del and DBC->del to force adjustment of the head of
the queue. [#17004]

Recno Access Method Changes:

Fixed a bug which could cause DB->compact of a RECNO database to loop if the number of
pages on the free list was reduced by another thread while compact was active. [#16199]

Fixed a bug that occurs when deleting from a Recno database and using
DB_READ_UNCOMMITTED where we could try to downgrade a lock twice. [#16347]

Fixed a bug to now disallow passing DB_DUP and DB_RECNUM together to __db_set_flags.
[#16585]

C-specific API Changes:

Add get functions for each set functions of DB and DB_ENV structures which didn't have
one.[#16505]

C++-specific API Changes:

The get and set_lk_partitions methods are now available.

Add get functions for each set functions of Db and DbEnv classes which didn't have one.
[#16505]

Fixed a memory leak when using nested transactions.[#16956]

Java-specific API Changes:

6/18/2015

Fixed a bug where the replication finer-grained verbose flags were not available in the
Java API. [#15419]

Fixed a bug in the BTree prefix compression API when called from the Java API. DBTs were
not properly initialized. [#16417]

Fixed a bug so that LogCursor will work correctly from the Java API. [#16827]

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Fixed a bug so that position(), limit() and capacity() of ByteBuffers are obeyed by
DatabaseEntry objects. [#16982]

Direct Persistence Layer (DPL), Bindings and Collections API:

The StoredMap class now implements the standard java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap

interface. [#15382]

Report a meaningful IllegalArgumentException when @Persistent is incorrectly declared

on an enum class. Before, the confusing message Persistent class has non-persistent
superclass: java.lang.Enum was reported. [#15623]

Report a meaningful IllegalArgumentException when @Persistent is incorrectly declared

on an interface. Before, a NullPointerException was reported. [#15841]

Several validation checks have been added or corrected having to do with entity
subclasses, which are @Persistent classes that extend an @Entity class. [#16077]

Optimized marshaling for large numbers of embedded objects improving performance.

[#16198]

The StoredMap class now implements the Java 1.5 ConcurrentMap interface. [#16218]

Fix a DPL bug that caused exceptions when using a class Converter for an instance
containing non-simple fields. [#16233]

Add EntityCursor.setCacheMode and getCacheMode. See the com.sleepycat.je.CacheMode

class for more information. [#16239]

Fix a bug that prevents evolution of @SecondaryKey information in an entity subclass (a

class that extends an @Entity class). [#16253]

10. Report a meaningful IllegalArgumentException when @Persistent or @Entity is incorrectly

used on an inner class (a non-static nested class). Before, the confusing message No
default constructor was reported. [#16279]
11. Improved the reliability of Entity subclasses that define secondary keys by requiring that
they be registered prior to storing an instance of the class. [#16399]
12. Fix a bug that under certain circumstances causes "IllegalArgumentException: Not a
key class" when calling EntityStore.getSubclassIndex, EntityStore.getPrimaryConfig,
EntityStore.getSecondaryConfig, or PrimaryIndex.put, and a composite key class is used.
[#16407]
13. Fixed a bug so that one can now compile DPL in the Java API on Windows. [#16570]
14. The com.sleepycat.collections.TransactionRunner.handleException method has been
added to allow overriding the default transaction retry policy. See the javadoc for this
method for more information. [#16574]
15. Fix a bug that causes an assertion to fire or a NullPointerException (when assertions are
disabled) from the EntityStore constructor. The problem occurs only when the previously

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created EntityStore contains an entity with a secondary key definition in which the key
name has been overridden and is different than the field name. [#16819]
16. Key cursors have been optimized to significantly reduce I/O when the
READ_UNCOMMITTED isolation mode is used. See EntityIndex.keys for more information.
[#16859]
17. Report a meaningful IllegalArgumentException when NULLIFY is used with a
@SecondaryKey and the field is a primitive type. Before, the confusing message Key field
object may not be null was reported. [#17011]
18. Enum fields may now be used as DPL keys, including primary keys, secondary keys, and
fields of composite key classes. Comparators are supported for composite key classes
containing enum fields. [#17140]
19. Fix a bug that prevented the use of custom key comparisons (composite key classes that
implement Comparable) for secondary keys defined as ONE_TO_MANY or MANY_TO_MANY.
[#17207]
20. The db.jar file now contains a Premain class which enables bytecode enhancement
using the JVM instrumentation commands. The built-in proxy classes are also now
enhanced in the db.jar file, which enables off-line bytecode enhancement. For more
information on DPL bytecode enhancement and how to use both instrumentation and offline enhancement, please see the com.sleepycat.persist.model.ClassEnhancer javadoc.
[#17233]

Tcl-specific API Changes:

The mutex API is now available when using Tcl. [#16342]

RPC-specific Client/Server Changes:

RPC support has been removed from Berkeley DB. [#16785]

Replication Changes:

6/18/2015

Improved testing of initial conditions for rep and repmgr APIs and added heartbeat
timeouts to rep_get_timeout.[#14977]

Added DB_REP_CONF_INMEM replication configuration flag to store replication

information exclusively in-memory without creating any files on-disk. [#15257]

Added repmgr support for multi-process shared env [#15982]

Fixed a bug where opening a cursor from a database handle failed to check whether
the database handle was still fresh. If the database handle had been invalidated by a
replication client synchronizing with a new master, it could point to invalid information.
[#15990]

Fixed a bug so that if LOG_REQ gets an archived LSN, replication sends VERIFY_FAIL.
[#16004]

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Added timestamp and process/thread id to replication verbose messages. [#16098]

Fixed a bug where, in very rare circumstances, two repmgr sites could connect to each
other at the exact same time, the connection attempts "collide" and fail, and the same
collision repeats in time synchronization indefinitely. [#16114]

Fixed a bug where a missing database file (FILE_FAIL error condition) can interrupt a
client synchronization without restarting it. [#16130]

Fixed a bug by adding REP_F_INREPSTART flag to prevent racing threads in rep_start.

[#16247]

10. Fixed a bug to not return HOLDELECTION if we are already in the middle of an election.
Updated the egen so the election thread will notice. [#16270]
11. Fixed a bug in buffer space computation, which could have led to memory corruption in
rare circumstances, when using bulk transfer. [#16357]
12. Fixed a bug that prevented replication clients from opening a sequence. The sequence is
opened for read operations only. [#16406]
13. Fixed a bug by removing an assertion about priority in elections. It is not correct because
it could have changed by then. Remove unused recover_gen field. [#16412]
14. Fixed a bug to now ignore a message from client if it is an LSN not recognized in a
LOG_REQ. [#16444]
15. Fixed a bug so that on POSIX systems, repmgr no longer restores default SIGPIPE action
upon env close, if it was necessary to change it during start-up. This allows remaining
repmgr environments within the same process, if any, to continue operating after one of
them is closed. [#16454]
16. After a replication client restarts with recovery, any named in-memory databases are
now re-materialized from the rest of the replication group upon synchronization with the
master. [#16495]
17. Fixed a bug by adding missing rep_get_config flags. [#16527]
18. Instead of sleeping if the bulk buffer is in transmission, return so that we can send as a
singleton. [#16537]
19. Fixed a bug by changing __env_refresh to not hit assert on -private -rep env with an inmemory database. [#16546]
20. Fixed a bug in the Windows implementation of repmgr where a large number of commit
threads concurrently awaiting acknowledgments could result in memory corruption, and
leaking Win32 Event Objects. [#16548]
21. Fixed a bug by changing repmgr to count a dropped connection when noticing a lacking
heartbeat; fixed hearbeat test to check for election, rather than connection drop count,
and more reasonable time limit; fixed test to poll until desired result, rather than always
sleeping max possible time. [#16550]

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22. Fixed "master changes" stat to count when local site becomes master too. [#16562]
23. Fixed a bug where a c2c client would send UPDATE_REQ to another client [#16592]
24. Removed code to proactively expire leases when we don't get acks. Leases maintain their
own LSNs to know. [#16494]
25. Fixed a bug where a client may not sync pages during internal init. [#16671]
26. Fixed a bug where a client that received and skipped a log record from the master during
an election, then won the election, could then try to request a copy of the skipped log
record. The result was an attempt to send a request to the local site, which is invalid:
this could confuse a replication Base API application, or cause the Replication Manager to
crash. [#16700]
27. Fixed a bug which could have caused data loss or corruption (at the client only) if a
replication client rolled back existing transactions in order to synchronize with a new
master, and then crashed/recovered before a subsequent checkpoint operation had been
replicated from the master. [#16732]
28. Fixed a bug so that replication now retries on DB_LOCK_NOTGRANTED. [#16741]
29. Fixed a potential deadlock in rep_verify_fail. [#16779]
30. Fixed a bug so that an application will no longer segv if nsites given was smaller than
number of sites that actually exists. [#16825]

XA Resource Manager Changes:

The XA Resource Manager has been removed from Berkeley DB. [#6459]

Locking Subsystem Changes:

6/18/2015

Fixed a bug to prevent unlocking a mutex twice if we ran out of transactional locks.
[#16285]

Fixed a bug to prevent a segmentation trap in __lock_open if there were an error during
the opening of an environment. [#16307]

Fixed a bug to now avoid a deadlock if user defined locks are used only one lock partition
is defined.[#16415]

Fixed concurrency problems in __dd_build, __dd_abort by adding LOCK_SYSTEM_LOCK()

calls to __dd_build and __dd_abort. [16489]

Fixed a bug that could cause a panic if a transaction which updated a database that was
supporting READ_UNCOMMITED readers aborted and it hit a race with a thread running the
deadlock detector. [#16490]

Fixed a race condition in deadlock detection that could overwrite heap. [#16541]

Fixed a bug so that DB_STAT_CLEAR now restores the value of st_partitions. [#16701]

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Logging Subsystem Changes:

Fixed a bug so that the header checksum is only ignored when the log is from a previous
version [#16281]

Fixed a bug by removing a possible race condition with logc_get(DB_FIRST) and log
archiving. [#16387]

Fixed a bug that could cause a recovery failure of a create of a database that was
aborted. [#16824]

An in-memory database creation has an intermediate phase where we have a semi-open

DBP. If we crash in that state, then recovery was failing because it tried to use a partically
open database handle. This fix checks for that case, and avoids trying to undo page writes
for databases in that interim step. [#17203]

Memory Pool Subsystem Changes:

Fixed a bug that occurred after all open handles on a file are closed. Needed to clear the
TXN_NOT_DURABLE flag (if set) and mark the file as DURABLE_UNKNOWN in the memory
pool. [#16091]

Fixed a possible race condition between dirtying and freeing a buffer that could result in
a panic or corruption. [#16530]

Fixed a memory leak where allocated space for temporary file names are not released.
[#16956]

Mutex Subsystem Changes:

6/18/2015

Fixed a bug when using mutexes for SMP MIPS/Linux systems. [#15914]

POSIX mutexes are now the default on Solaris. [#16066]

Fixed a bug in mutex allocation with multiple cache regions. [#16178]

Fixed MIPS/Linux mutexes in 4.7. [#16209]

Fixed a bug that would cause a mutex to be unlocked a second time if we ran out of space
while tracking pinned pages. [#16228]

Fixed a bug Sparc/GCC when using test-and-set mutexes. They are now aligned on an 8byte boundary. [#16243]

Fixed a bug to now prevent a thread calling DB_ENV->failcheck to hang on a mutex held
by a dead thread. [#16446]

Fixed a bug so that __db_pthread_mutex_unlock() now handles the failchk case of finding
a busy mutex which was owned by a now-dead process. [#16557]

Removed support for the mutex implementation based on the "fcntl" system call. Anyone
configuring Berkeley DB to use this type of mutex in an earlier release will need to either
switch to a different mutex type or contact Oracle for support. [#17470]

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Test Suite Changes

Fixed a bug when using failchk(), where a mutex was not released. [#15982]

Added a set of basic repmgr tests to run_std and run_all. [#16092]

Added control wrapper for db_reptest to test suite. [#16161]

Fixed a bug to now skip tests if db_reptest is not configured. [#16161]

Changed name of run_db_in_mem to run_inmem_db, and run_inmem to run_inmem_log

and made the arg orders consistent. [#16358]

Fixed a bug to now clean up stray handles when rep_verify doesn't work. [#16390]

Fixed a bug to avoid db_reptest passing the wrong flag to repmgr_start when there is
already a master. [#16475]

Added new tests for abbreviated internal init. Fixed test not to expect in-memory
database to survive recovery. [#16495]

Fix a bug, to add page size for txn014 if the default page size is too small. Move files
instead of renaming directory for env015 on QNX. [#16627]

10. Added new rep088 test for log truncation integrity. [#16732]
11. Fixed a bug by adding a checkpoint in rep061 to make sure we have messages to process.
Otherwise we could hang with client stuck in internal init, and no incoming messages to
trigger rerequest. [#16781]

Transaction Subsystem Changes:

Fixed a bug to no longer generate an error if DB_ENV->set_flags (DB_TXN_NOSYNC) was

called after the environment was opened. [#16492]

Fixed a bug to remove a potential hang condition in replication os_yield loops when
DB_REGISTER used with replication by adding PANIC_CHECKS. [#16502]

Fix a bug to now release mutex obtained before special condition returns in
__db_cursor_int and __txn_record_fname. [#16665]

Fixed a leak in the transaction region when a snapshot update transaction accesses more
than 4 databases. [#16734]

Enabled setting of set_thread_count via the DB_CONFIG file. [#16878]

Fixed a mutex leak in some corner cases. [#16665]

Utility Changes:
1.

6/18/2015

The db_stat utility with the -RA flags will now print a list of known remote replication
flags when using repmgr. [#15484]

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Restructured DB salvage to walk known leaf pages prior to looping over all db pages.
[#16219]

Fixed a problem with upgrades to 4.7 on big endian machines. [#16411]

Fixed a bug so that now db_load consistently returns >1 on failure. [#16765]

The db_dump utility now accepts a "-m" flag to dump information from a named inmemory database. [#16896]

Fixed a bug that would cause db_hotbackup to fail if a database file was removed while it
was running. [#17234]

Configuration, Documentation, Sample Application, Portability and Build

Changes:
1.

Fixed a bug to now use the correct Perl include path. [#16058]

Updated the version of the Microsoft runtime libraries shipped. [#16058]

Upgraded the Visual Studio build files to be based on Visual Studio 8 (2005+). The build is
now simplified. Users can still upgrade the Visual Studio 6.0 project files, if they want to
use Visual Studio .NET (7.1) [#16108]

Expanded the ex_rep example with checkpoint and log archive threads, deadlock
detection, new options for acknowledgment policy and bulk transfer, and use of
additional replication features and events. [#16109]

Fixed a bug so that optimizations on AIX are re-enabled, avoiding incorrect code
generation. [#16141]

Removed a few compiler warnings and three type redefinitons when using vxworks and
the GNU compiler. [#16341]

Fixed a bug on Sparc v9 so that MUTEX_MEMBAR() now uses membar_enter() to get a

#storeload barrier rather than just stbar's #storestor. [#16468]

Berkeley DB no longer supports Win9X and Windows Me (Millenium edition).

Fixed lock_get and lock_vec examples from the Java (and C#) API. Updated the Java lock
example. [#16506]

10. Fixed a bug to correctly handle the TPC-B history record on 64-bit systems. [#16709]
11. Add STL API to Linux build. Can be enabled via the --enable-stl flag. [#16786]
12. Add STL API to Windows build, by building the db_stl project in the solution. There are
also stl's test and examples projects in this solution. [#16786]
13. Add support to build dll projects for WinCE, in order to enable users to build DB into a dll
in addition to a static library.[#16625]

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14. Fixed a weakness where several malloc/realloc return values are not checked before use.
[#16664]
15. Enabled DB->compact for WinCE.[#15897]
16. HP-UX 10 is no longer supported.

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Running the test suite
Once you have started tclsh and have loaded the test.tcl source file (see Running the test
suite under UNIX (page 74) and Running the test suite under Windows (page 43) for more
information), you are ready to run the test suite. At the tclsh prompt, to run the standard test
suite, enter the following:
% run_std
A more exhaustive version of the test suite runs all the tests several more times, testing
encryption, replication, and different page sizes. After you have a clean run for run_std, you
may choose to run this lengthier set of tests. At the tclsh prompt, enter:
% run_all
Running the standard tests can take from several hours to a few days to complete, depending
on your hardware, and running all the tests will take at least twice as long. For this reason,
the output from these commands are redirected to a file in the current directory named
ALL.OUT. Periodically, a line will be written to the standard output, indicating what test is
being run. When the test suite has finished, a final message will be written indicating the test
suite has completed successfully or that it has failed. If the run failed, you should review the
ALL.OUT file to determine which tests failed. Errors will appear in that file as output lines,
beginning with the string "FAIL".
Tests are run in the directory TESTDIR, by default. However, the test files are often large, and
you should use a filesystem with at least several hundred megabytes of free space. To use a
different directory for the test directory, edit the file include.tcl in your build directory, and
change the following line to a more appropriate value for your system:
set testdir ./TESTDIR
For example, you might change it to the following:
set testdir /var/tmp/db.test
Alternatively, you can create a symbolic link named TESTDIR in your build directory to an
appropriate location for running the tests. Regardless of where you run the tests, the TESTDIR
directory should be on a local filesystem. Using a remote filesystem (for example, an NFS
mounted filesystem) will almost certainly cause spurious test failures.

Running SQL Test Suite on Unix

Once the test suite is built (see Building SQL Test Suite on Unix (page 75) for more
information), run the entire test suite by executing the following command in the ../
build_unix/sql directory:
sh ../../sql/adapter/bdb-test.sh
This runs a set of tests and lists the errors each test encountered, if any. A detailed list of the
test results is written to test.log.

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To run an individual test, such as insert.test, execute the following command in the ../
build_unix/sql directory:
./textfixture ../../sql/sqlite/test/insert.test

Running SQL Test Suite on Windows

After the test suite is built (see Building the software needed by the SQL tests (page 44) for
more information) and before running the entire test suite, go to ../sql/adapter/bdbtest.sh and edit the line:
echo $t: `alarm $TIMEOUT ./testfixture.exe
$tpath 2>&1 | tee -a test.log | grep "errors out of"
|| echo "failed"`
to
echo $t: `alarm $TIMEOUT Win32/Debug/testfixture.exe
$tpath 2>&1 | tee -a test.log | grep "errors out of"
|| echo "failed"`
Running the test suite requires an Unix emulator, such as Cygwin. In a Cygwin window go to
the ../build_windows directory and execute the command:
sh ../sql/adapter/bdb-test.sh
This runs a set of tests and lists errors that each test encountered, if any. A detailed list of the
test results is written to test.log.
To run an individual test, such as insert.test, execute the following command in the ../
build_windows directory:
Win32/Debug/testfixture.exe ../sql/sqlite/test/insert.test

Test suite FAQ

The test suite has been running for over a day. What's wrong?
The test suite can take anywhere from some number of hours to several days to run,
depending on your hardware configuration. As long as the run is making forward progress
and new lines are being written to the ALL.OUT files, everything is probably fine.

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