Berkeley DB

DbEnv::set_paniccall

						#include <db_cxx.h>
						int
						DbEnv::set_paniccall(void (*)(DbEnv *, int));
					

Description

Errors can occur in the Berkeley DB library where the only solution is to shut down the application and run recovery (for example, if Berkeley DB is unable to write log records to disk because there is insufficient disk space). In these cases, when the C++ error model has been configured so that the individual Berkeley DB methods return error codes (see DbException for more information), the value DB_RUNRECOVERY is returned by Berkeley DB methods.

In these cases, it is also often simpler to shut down the application when such errors occur rather than attempting to gracefully return up the stack. The DbEnv::set_paniccall method is used to ...