Berkeley DB

Chapter 24. Upgrading Berkeley DB Applications

The following information describes the general process of upgrading Berkeley DB installations. There are three issues to be considered when upgrading Berkeley DB applications and database environments: the application API; the underlying database formats; and, in the case of transactional database environments, the log files. The issues that need to be considered depend on whether or not the release is a major or minor release (in which either the major or minor number of the version changed), or a patch release (in which only the patch number in the version changed).