June 2001
Intermediate to advanced
688 pages
19h 18m
English
db_upgrade [-NsV] [-h home] file ...
The db_upgrade utility upgrades the Berkeley DB version of one or more files and the databases they contain to the current release version.
The options are as follows:
-h Specify a home directory for the database environment; by default, the current working directory is used.
-N Do not acquire shared region locks while running. Other problems, such as potentially fatal errors in Berkeley DB, will be ignored as well. This option is intended only for debugging errors and should not be used under any other circumstances.
-s This flag is only meaningful when upgrading databases from releases before the Berkeley DB 3.1 release.
As part of the upgrade from the Berkeley DB 3.0 release to ...