Berkeley DB

Object Handles

With a few minor exceptions, Berkeley DB functionality is accessed by creating a structure and then calling functions that are fields in that structure. This is, of course, similar to object-oriented concepts—of instances and methods on them. For simplicity, we will often refer to these structure fields as methods of the handle.

The manual pages will show these methods as C structure references. For example, the open-a-database method for a database handle is represented as DB→open.