June 2001
Intermediate to advanced
688 pages
19h 18m
English
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The db_dump and db_load Utilities
The db_dump and db_dump185 utilities dump Berkeley DB databases into a flat-text representation of the data that can be read by db_load. The only difference between them is that db_dump reads Berkeley DB version 2 and greater database formats, whereas db_dump185 reads Berkeley DB version 1.85 and 1.86 database formats.
The db_load utility reads either the output format used by the dump utilities or (optionally) a flat-text representation created using other tools, and stores it into a Berkeley DB database.
Dumping and reloading Hash databases that use user-defined hash functions will result in new databases that use the default hash function. Although using the default hash function may not be optimal for the ...