Berkeley DB

DbEnv::set_tx_timestamp

						#include <db_cxx.h>
						int
						DbEnv::set_tx_timestamp(time_t *timestamp);
					

Description

Recover to the time specified by timestamp rather than to the most current possible date. The timestamp argument should be the number of seconds since 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds, January 1, 1970, Coordinated Universal Time; that is, the Epoch.

Once a database environment has been upgraded to a new version of Berkeley DB involving a log format change (see “Upgrading Berkeley DB Installations”), it is no longer possible to recover to a specific time before that upgrade.

The DbEnv::set_tx_timestamp interface may only be used to configure Berkeley DB before the DbEnv::open interface is called.

The DbEnv::set_tx_timestamp method either returns ...