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 BDB - Asynchronous Berkeley DB access
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
  use BDB;
+ my $env = db_env_create;
+ mkdir "bdtest", 0700;
+ db_env_open
+    $env,
+    "bdtest",
+    BDB::INIT_LOCK | BDB::INIT_LOG | BDB::INIT_MPOOL
+    | BDB::INIT_TXN | BDB::RECOVER | BDB::USE_ENVIRON | BDB::CREATE,
+    0600;
+ $env->set_flags (BDB::AUTO_COMMIT | BDB::TXN_NOSYNC, 1);
+ my $db = db_create $env;
+ db_open $db, undef, "table", undef, BDB::BTREE, BDB::AUTO_COMMIT | BDB::CREATE
+                                     | BDB::READ_UNCOMMITTED, 0600;
+ db_put $db, undef, "key", "data", 0, sub {
+    db_del $db, undef, "key";
+ };
+ db_sync $db;
+ # when you also use Coro, management is easy:
+ use Coro::BDB;
+ # automatic event loop intergration with AnyEvent:
+ use AnyEvent::BDB;
+ # automatic result processing with EV:
+ my $WATCHER = EV::io BDB::poll_fileno, EV::READ, \&BDB::poll_cb;
+ # with Glib:
+ add_watch Glib::IO BDB::poll_fileno,
+           in => sub { BDB::poll_cb; 1 };
+ # or simply flush manually
+ BDB::flush;
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 See the BerkeleyDB documentation (L<http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/index.html>).
 The BDB API is very similar to the C API (the translation has been very faithful).
 use strict 'vars';
 use base 'Exporter';
 BEGIN {
-   our $VERSION = '1.1';
+   our $VERSION = '1.5';
    our @BDB_REQ = qw(
       db_env_open db_env_close db_env_txn_checkpoint db_env_lock_detect
       db_env_memp_sync db_env_memp_trickle
-      db_open db_close db_compact db_sync db_put db_get db_pget db_del db_key_range
+      db_open db_close db_compact db_sync db_upgrade
+      db_put db_get db_pget db_del db_key_range
       db_txn_commit db_txn_abort db_txn_finish
       db_c_close db_c_count db_c_put db_c_get db_c_pget db_c_del
       db_sequence_open db_sequence_close
       db_sequence_get db_sequence_remove
    );
    require XSLoader;
    XSLoader::load ("BDB", $VERSION);
 }
+=head2 WIN32 FILENAMES/DATABASE NAME MESS
+Perl on Win32 supports only ASCII filenames (the reason is that it abuses
+an internal flag to store wether a filename is Unicode or ANSI, but that
+flag is used for somethign else in the perl core, so there is no way to
+detect wether a filename is ANSI or Unicode-encoded). The BDB module
+tries to work around this issue by assuming that the filename is an ANSI
+filename and BDB was built for unicode support.
 =head2 BERKELEYDB FUNCTIONS
 All of these are functions. The create functions simply return a new
-object and never block. All the remaining functions all take an optional
+object and never block. All the remaining functions take an optional
-callback as last argument. If it is missing, then the fucntion will be
+callback as last argument. If it is missing, then the function will be
-executed synchronously.
+executed synchronously. In both cases, C<$!> will reflect the return value
+of the function.
 BDB functions that cannot block (mostly functions that manipulate
 settings) are method calls on the relevant objects, so the rule of thumb
-is: if its a method, its not blocking, if its a function, it takes a
+is: if it's a method, it's not blocking, if it's a function, it takes a
 callback as last argument.
 In the following, C<$int> signifies an integer return value,
 C<octetstring> is a "binary string" (i.e. a perl string with no character
 indices >255), C<U32> is an unsigned 32 bit integer, C<int> is some
    db_open (DB *db, DB_TXN_ornull *txnid, octetstring file, octetstring database, int type, U32 flags, int mode, SV *callback = &PL_sv_undef)
       flags: AUTO_COMMIT CREATE EXCL MULTIVERSION NOMMAP RDONLY READ_UNCOMMITTED THREAD TRUNCATE
    db_close (DB *db, U32 flags = 0, SV *callback = &PL_sv_undef)
       flags: DB_NOSYNC
+   db_upgrade (DB *db, octetstring file, U32 flags = 0, SV *callback = &PL_sv_undef)
    db_compact (DB *db, DB_TXN_ornull *txn = 0, SV *start = 0, SV *stop = 0, SV *unused1 = 0, U32 flags = DB_FREE_SPACE, SV *unused2 = 0, SV *callback = &PL_sv_undef)
       flags: FREELIST_ONLY FREE_SPACE
    db_sync (DB *db, U32 flags = 0, SV *callback = &PL_sv_undef)
    db_key_range (DB *db, DB_TXN_ornull *txn, SV *key, SV *key_range, U32 flags = 0, SV *callback = &PL_sv_undef)
    db_put (DB *db, DB_TXN_ornull *txn, SV *key, SV *data, U32 flags = 0, SV *callback = &PL_sv_undef)
    db_sequence_remove (DB_SEQUENCE *seq, DB_TXN_ornull *txnid = 0, U32 flags = 0, SV *callback = &PL_sv_undef)
       flags: TXN_NOSYNC
 =head4 db_txn_finish (DB_TXN *txn, U32 flags = 0, SV *callback = &PL_sv_undef)
-This is not a Berkeley DB function but a BDB module extension. It is very
+This is not actually a Berkeley DB function but a BDB module
+extension. The background for this exytension is: It is very annoying to
-annoying to have to check every single BDB function for error returns and
+have to check every single BDB function for error returns and provide a
-provide a codepath out of your transaction. While the BDB module still
+codepath out of your transaction. While the BDB module still makes this
-makes this possible, it contains the following extensions:
+possible, it contains the following extensions:
 When a transaction-protected function returns any operating system
 error (errno > 0), BDB will set the C<TXN_DEADLOCK> flag on the
-transaction. This flag is also set by Berkeley DB functions externally
+transaction. This flag is also set by Berkeley DB functions themselves
 when an operation fails with LOCK_DEADLOCK, and it causes all further
 operations on that transaction (including C<db_txn_commit>) to fail.
 The C<db_txn_finish> request will look at this flag, and, if it is set,
 will automatically call C<db_txn_abort> (setting errno to C<LOCK_DEADLOCK>
-if it isn't set). If it isn't set, it will call C<db_txn_commit> and
+if it isn't set to something else yet). If it isn't set, it will call
-return the error normally.
+C<db_txn_commit> and return the error normally.
 How to use this? Easy: just write your transaction normally:
    my $txn = $db_env->txn_begin;
    db_get $db, $txn, "key", my $data;
 That is, handle only the expected errors. If something unexpected happens
 (EIO, LOCK_NOTGRANTED or a deadlock in either db_get or db_put), then the remaining
 requests (db_put in this case) will simply be skipped (they will fail with
 LOCK_DEADLOCK) and the transaction will be aborted.
-You cna use the C<< $txn->failed >> method to check wether a transaction
+You can use the C<< $txn->failed >> method to check wether a transaction
 has failed in this way and abort further processing (excluding
 C<db_txn_finish>).
 =head3 DB_ENV/database environment methods
    $int = $env->set_lk_max_lockers (U32 max)
    $int = $env->set_lk_max_locks (U32 max)
    $int = $env->set_lk_max_objects (U32 max)
    $int = $env->set_lg_bsize (U32 max)
    $int = $env->set_lg_max (U32 max)
+   $int = $env->mutex_set_increment (U32 increment)
+   $int = $env->mutex_set_tas_spins (U32 tas_spins)
+   $int = $env->mutex_set_max (U32 max)
+   $int = $env->mutex_set_align (U32 align)
    $txn = $env->txn_begin (DB_TXN_ornull *parent = 0, U32 flags = 0)
       flags: READ_COMMITTED READ_UNCOMMITTED TXN_NOSYNC TXN_NOWAIT TXN_SNAPSHOT TXN_SYNC TXN_WAIT TXN_WRITE_NOSYNC
 =head4 Example:
    DESTROY (DBC_ornull *dbc)
            CODE:
            if (dbc)
              dbc->c_close (dbc);
+   $int = $cursor->set_priority ($priority = PRIORITY_*)
 =head4 Example:
    my $c = $db->cursor;
    for (;;) {
 =head3 EVENT PROCESSING AND EVENT LOOP INTEGRATION
 =over 4
+=item $msg = BDB::strerror [$errno]
+Returns the string corresponding to the given errno value. If no argument
+is given, use C<$!>.
+Note that the BDB module also patches the C<$!> variable directly, so you
+should be able to get a bdb error string by simply stringifying C<$!>.
 =item $fileno = BDB::poll_fileno
 Return the I<request result pipe file descriptor>. This filehandle must be
 polled for reading by some mechanism outside this module (e.g. Event or
 select, see below or the SYNOPSIS). If the pipe becomes readable you have
 interactiveness when perl is not fast enough to process all requests in
 time.
 For interactive programs, values such as C<0.01> to C<0.1> should be fine.
-Example: Install an Event watcher that automatically calls
+Example: Install an EV watcher that automatically calls
 BDB::poll_cb with low priority, to ensure that other parts of the
-program get the CPU sometimes even under high AIO load.
+program get the CPU sometimes even under high load.
    # try not to spend much more than 0.1s in poll_cb
    BDB::max_poll_time 0.1;
-   # use a low priority so other tasks have priority
+   my $bdb_poll = EV::io BDB::poll_fileno, EV::READ, \&BDB::poll_cb);
-   Event->io (fd => BDB::poll_fileno,
-              poll => 'r', nice => 1,
-              cb => &BDB::poll_cb);
 =item BDB::poll_wait
 If there are any outstanding requests and none of them in the result
 phase, wait till the result filehandle becomes ready for reading (simply
    BDB::poll_wait, BDB::poll_cb
 =item BDB::flush
-Wait till all outstanding AIO requests have been handled.
+Wait till all outstanding BDB requests have been handled.
 Strictly equivalent to:
    BDB::poll_wait, BDB::poll_cb
       while BDB::nreqs;
 =over 4
 =item BDB::min_parallel $nthreads
-Set the minimum number of AIO threads to C<$nthreads>. The current
+Set the minimum number of BDB threads to C<$nthreads>. The current
 default is C<8>, which means eight asynchronous operations can execute
 concurrently at any one time (the number of outstanding requests,
 however, is unlimited).
-BDB starts threads only on demand, when an AIO request is queued and
+BDB starts threads only on demand, when an BDB request is queued and
 no free thread exists. Please note that queueing up a hundred requests can
 create demand for a hundred threads, even if it turns out that everything
 is in the cache and could have been processed faster by a single thread.
 It is recommended to keep the number of threads relatively low, as some
 Under most circumstances you don't need to call this function, as the
 module selects a default that is suitable for low to moderate load.
 =item BDB::max_parallel $nthreads
-Sets the maximum number of AIO threads to C<$nthreads>. If more than the
+Sets the maximum number of BDB threads to C<$nthreads>. If more than the
 specified number of threads are currently running, this function kills
 them. This function blocks until the limit is reached.
 While C<$nthreads> are zero, aio requests get queued but not executed
 until the number of threads has been increased again.
 =head2 FORK BEHAVIOUR
 This module should do "the right thing" when the process using it forks:
-Before the fork, IO::AIO enters a quiescent state where no requests
+Before the fork, BDB enters a quiescent state where no requests
 can be added in other threads and no results will be processed. After
 the fork the parent simply leaves the quiescent state and continues
 request/result processing, while the child frees the request/result queue
 (so that the requests started before the fork will only be handled in the
 parent). Threads will be started on demand until the limit set in the
 parent process has been reached again.
 In short: the parent will, after a short pause, continue as if fork had
-not been called, while the child will act as if IO::AIO has not been used
+not been called, while the child will act as if BDB has not been used
 yet.
+Win32 note: there is no fork on win32, and perls emulation of it is too
+broken to be supported, so do not use BDB in a windows pseudo-fork, better
+yet, switch to a more capable platform.
 =head2 MEMORY USAGE
 Per-request usage:
    TXN_DEADLOCK flag will be set on the transaction. See C<db_txn_finish>,
    above.
 =head1 SEE ALSO
-L<Coro::AIO>.
+L<AnyEvent::BDB> (event loop integration), L<Coro::BDB> (more natural
+syntax), L<IO::AIO> (nice to have).
 =head1 AUTHOR
  Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
  http://home.schmorp.de/

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