June 2001
Intermediate to advanced
688 pages
19h 18m
English
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Library Version Information
Each release of the Berkeley DB library has a major version number, a minor version number, and a patch number.
The major version number changes only when major portions of the Berkeley DB functionality have been changed. In this case, it may be necessary to significantly modify applications in order to upgrade them to use the new version of the library.
The minor version number changes when Berkeley DB interfaces have changed, and the new release is not entirely backward-compatible with previous releases. To upgrade applications to the new version, they must be recompiled and minor modifications may be made (for example, the order of arguments to a function might have changed).
The patch number changes on each release. ...