Berkeley DB

Using Berkeley DB with Tcl

All commands in the Berkeley DB Tcl interface are in the following form:

command_handle operation options 

The command handle is berkdb or one of the additional commands that may be created. The operation is what you want to do to that handle, and the options apply to the operation. Commands that get created on behalf of the application have their own sets of operations. Generally, any calls in DB that result in new object handles will translate into a new command handle in Tcl. Then, the user can access the operations of the handle via the new Tcl command handle.

Newly created commands are named with an abbreviated form of their objects, followed by a number. Some created commands are subcommands of other created ...