Berkeley DB

Db.cursor

						import com.sleepycat.db.*;
						public Dbc cursor(DbTxn txnid, int flags)
						throws DbException;
					

Description

The Db.cursor method creates a cursor.

If the operation is to be transactionally protected, the txnid parameter is a transaction handle returned from DbEnv.txn_begin, otherwise, null.

To transaction-protect cursor operations, cursors must be opened and closed within the context of a transaction, and the txnid parameter specifies the transaction context in which the cursor may be used.

The flags value must be set to 0 or by bitwise inclusively OR’ing together one or more of the following values.

• Db.DB_WRITECURSOR Specify that the cursor will be used to update the database. This flag should only be set when the DB_INIT_CDB flag was ...