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<pre class="programlisting">#include &lt;db.h&gt;
int
DB-&gt;close(DB *db, u_int32_t flags); </pre>
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The <code class="methodname">DB-&gt;close()</code> method flushes cached database information to
disk, closes any open cursors, frees allocated resources, and
closes underlying files. When the close operation for a cursor fails,
the method returns a non-zero error value for the first instance of such an error,
and continues to close the rest of the cursors and database handles.
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Although closing a database handle will close any open cursors, it
is recommended that applications explicitly close all their
<a class="link" href="dbc.html" title="Chapter 3.  The DBcursor Handle">DBcursor</a> handles
before closing the database. The reason why is that when
the cursor is explicitly closed, the memory allocated for it is
reclaimed; however, this will <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> happen if
you close a database while cursors are still opened.
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The same rule, for the same reasons, hold true for
<a class="link" href="txn.html" title="Chapter 12.  The DB_TXN Handle">DB_TXN</a>
handles. Simply make sure you close all your transaction handles
before closing your database handle.
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<p>
Because key/data pairs are cached in memory, applications should
make a point to always either close database handles or sync their
data to disk (using the <a class="xref" href="dbsync.html" title="DB-&gt;sync()">DB-&gt;sync()</a>
method) before exiting, to ensure that any data cached in main memory are
reflected in the underlying file system.
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<p>
When called on a database that is the primary database for a secondary
index, the primary database should be closed only after all secondary
indices referencing it have been closed.
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<p>
When multiple threads are using the <a class="link" href="db.html" title="Chapter 2.  The DB Handle">DB</a>
concurrently, only a single thread may call the <code class="methodname">DB-&gt;close()</code> method.
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The <a class="link" href="db.html" title="Chapter 2.  The DB Handle">DB</a> handle may not be
accessed again after <code class="methodname">DB-&gt;close()</code> is called, regardless of its return.
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If you do not close the <a class="link" href="db.html" title="Chapter 2.  The DB Handle">DB</a> handle explicitly, it will be closed when
the environment handle that owns the <a class="link" href="db.html" title="Chapter 2.  The DB Handle">DB</a> handle is closed.
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The <code class="methodname">DB-&gt;close()</code> <span>
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method returns a non-zero error value on failure and 0 on success.
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The error values that <code class="methodname">DB-&gt;close()</code> method returns include the error values of <code class="methodname">DBcursor-&gt;close()</code> and the following:
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<h4 class="title"><a id="idp57262360"></a>DB_LOCK_DEADLOCK</h4>
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A transactional database environment operation was selected to resolve
a deadlock.
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<h4 class="title"><a id="idp57341936"></a>DB_LOCK_NOTGRANTED</h4>
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A Berkeley DB Concurrent Data Store database environment configured
for lock timeouts was unable to grant a lock in the allowed time.
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You attempted to open a database handle that is configured
for no waiting exclusive locking, but the exclusive lock could not be
immediately obtained. See
<a class="xref" href="dbset_lk_exclusive.html" title="DB-&gt;set_lk_exclusive()">DB-&gt;set_lk_exclusive()</a>
for more information.
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<h4 class="title"><a id="idp57213808"></a>EINVAL</h4>
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If the cursor is already closed; or if an invalid flag value or parameter was specified.
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<h3 class="title"><a id="idp57333296"></a>Parameters</h3>
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<h4 class="title"><a id="idp57333488"></a>flags</h4>
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The <span class="bold"><strong>flags</strong></span> parameter must be set to 0
or be set to the following value:
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<p><a id="dbclose_DB_NOSYNC"></a>
<code class="literal">DB_NOSYNC</code>
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Do not flush cached information to disk. This flag is a
dangerous option. It should be set only if the application is doing
logging (with transactions) so that the database is recoverable after
a system or application crash, or if the database is always generated
from scratch after any system or application crash.
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<span class="bold"><strong>It is important to understand that flushing
cached information to disk only minimizes the window of opportunity
for corrupted data.</strong></span> Although unlikely, it is possible for
database corruption to happen if a system or application crash occurs
while writing data to the database. To ensure that database
corruption never occurs, applications must either: use transactions
and logging with automatic recovery; use logging and
application-specific recovery; or edit a copy of the database, and
once all applications using the database have successfully called
<code class="methodname">DB-&gt;close()</code>, atomically replace the original database with the
updated copy.
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Note that this flag only works when the database
has been opened using an environment.
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The <code class="methodname">DB-&gt;close()</code> <span>
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method may fail and return one of the following non-zero errors:
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<h4 class="title"><a id="idp57383680"></a>EINVAL</h4>
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An invalid flag value or parameter was specified.
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<p>
The error messages returned for the first error encountered when <code class="methodname">DB-&gt;close()</code> method closes any open cursors include:
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<h4 class="title"><a id="idp57371072"></a>DB_LOCK_DEADLOCK</h4>
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A transactional database environment operation was selected to resolve
a deadlock.
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<h4 class="title"><a id="idp57356192"></a>DB_LOCK_NOTGRANTED</h4>
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A Berkeley DB Concurrent Data Store database environment configured
for lock timeouts was unable to grant a lock in the allowed time.
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You attempted to open a database handle that is configured
for no waiting exclusive locking, but the exclusive lock could not be
immediately obtained. See
<a class="xref" href="dbset_lk_exclusive.html" title="DB-&gt;set_lk_exclusive()">DB-&gt;set_lk_exclusive()</a>
for more information.
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<h4 class="title"><a id="idp57375096"></a>EINVAL</h4>
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If the cursor is already closed; or if an invalid flag value or parameter was specified.
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<h3 class="title"><a id="idp57376920"></a>Class</h3>
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