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<p>Library Version 11.2.5.3</p>
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<th colspan="3" align="center">Checkpoints</th>
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<td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="transapp_deadlock.html">Prev</a> </td>
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<th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 11.
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Berkeley DB Transactional Data Store Applications
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<h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="transapp_checkpoint"></a>Checkpoints</h2>
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<p>The second component of the infrastructure is performing checkpoints of
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the log files. Performing checkpoints is necessary for two reasons.</p>
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<p>First, you may be able to remove Berkeley DB log files from your database
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environment after a checkpoint. Change records are written into the log
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files when databases are modified, but the actual changes to the
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database are not necessarily written to disk. When a checkpoint is
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performed, changes to the database are written into the backing database
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file. Once the database pages are written, log files can be archived
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and removed from the database environment because they will never be
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needed for anything other than catastrophic failure. (Log files which
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are involved in active transactions may not be removed, and there must
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always be at least one log file in the database environment.)</p>
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<p>The second reason to perform checkpoints is because checkpoint frequency
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is inversely proportional to the amount of time it takes to run database
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recovery after a system or application failure. This is because
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recovery after failure has to redo or undo changes only since the last
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checkpoint, as changes before the checkpoint have all been flushed to
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the databases.</p>
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<p>
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Berkeley DB provides the <a href="../api_reference/C/db_checkpoint.html" class="olink">db_checkpoint</a> utility, which can be used to perform
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checkpoints. Alternatively, applications can write their own
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checkpoint thread using the underlying <a href="../api_reference/C/txncheckpoint.html" class="olink">DB_ENV->txn_checkpoint()</a> function. The
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following code fragment checkpoints the database environment every 60
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seconds:
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</p>
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<pre class="programlisting">int
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main(int argc, char *argv)
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{
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extern int optind;
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DB *db_cats, *db_color, *db_fruit;
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DB_ENV *dbenv;
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pthread_t ptid;
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int ch;
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while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "")) != EOF)
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switch (ch) {
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case '?':
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default:
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usage();
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}
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argc -= optind;
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argv += optind;
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env_dir_create();
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env_open(&dbenv);
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<span class="bold"><strong> /* Start a checkpoint thread. */
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if ((errno = pthread_create(
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&ptid, NULL, checkpoint_thread, (void *)dbenv)) != 0) {
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fprintf(stderr,
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"txnapp: failed spawning checkpoint thread: %s\n",
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strerror(errno));
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exit (1);
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}</strong></span>
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/* Open database: Key is fruit class; Data is specific type. */
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db_open(dbenv, &db_fruit, "fruit", 0);
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/* Open database: Key is a color; Data is an integer. */
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db_open(dbenv, &db_color, "color", 0);
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/*
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* Open database:
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* Key is a name; Data is: company name, cat breeds.
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*/
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db_open(dbenv, &db_cats, "cats", 1);
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add_fruit(dbenv, db_fruit, "apple", "yellow delicious");
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add_color(dbenv, db_color, "blue", 0);
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add_color(dbenv, db_color, "blue", 3);
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add_cat(dbenv, db_cats,
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"Amy Adams",
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"Oracle",
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"abyssinian",
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"bengal",
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"chartreaux",
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NULL);
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return (0);
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}
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<span class="bold"><strong>void *
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checkpoint_thread(void *arg)
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{
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DB_ENV *dbenv;
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int ret;
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dbenv = arg;
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dbenv->errx(dbenv, "Checkpoint thread: %lu", (u_long)pthread_self());
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/* Checkpoint once a minute. */
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for (;; sleep(60))
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if ((ret = dbenv->txn_checkpoint(dbenv, 0, 0, 0)) != 0) {
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dbenv->err(dbenv, ret, "checkpoint thread");
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exit (1);
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}
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/* NOTREACHED */
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}</strong></span></pre>
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<p>Because checkpoints can be quite expensive, choosing how often to
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perform a checkpoint is a common tuning parameter for Berkeley DB
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applications.</p>
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