db-6.1.19

[Fernando de Oliveira]

​http://download.oracle.com/otn/berkeley-db/db-6.1.19.tar.gz

​http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/products/berkeleydb/html/changelog_6_1.html

Database or Log File On-Disk Format Changes

The log file format changed in 12.1.6.1.

New Features/Improvements

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]

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
--enable-failchk_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]

Added --enable-error_history support. This diagnostic tool prints a stack trace
when a panic occurs. [#23119]

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

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API Changes

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Known Bugs

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[Fernando de Oliveira]

Fixed at r13369.