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<pre class="programlisting">#include &lt;db.h&gt;
int
DB-&gt;exists(DB *db, DB_TXN *txnid, DBT *key, u_int32_t flags); </pre>
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The <code class="methodname">DB-&gt;exists()</code> method returns whether the specified key appears in the
database.
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The <code class="methodname">DB-&gt;exists()</code> method will return <a href="../../programmer_reference/program_errorret.html#program_errorret.DB_NOTFOUND" class="olink">DB_NOTFOUND</a> if the specified key
is not in the database. The <code class="methodname">DB-&gt;exists()</code> method will return
<a href="../../programmer_reference/program_errorret.html#program_errorret.DB_KEYEMPTY" class="olink">DB_KEYEMPTY</a> if the database
is a Queue or Recno database and the specified key exists, but was never explicitly created
by the application or was later deleted.
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If the operation is part of an application-specified transaction, the <span class="bold"><strong>txnid</strong></span> parameter is a transaction handle returned from
<a class="xref" href="txnbegin.html" title="DB_ENV-&gt;txn_begin()">DB_ENV-&gt;txn_begin()</a>; if the operation is part of a
Berkeley DB Concurrent Data Store group, the <span class="bold"><strong>txnid</strong></span>
parameter is a handle returned from
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implicitly transaction protected.
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The key <a class="link" href="dbt.html" title="Chapter 4.  The DBT Handle">DBT</a> operated on.
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The <span class="bold"><strong>flags</strong></span> parameter must be set to zero or
by bitwise inclusively <span class="bold"><strong>OR</strong></span>'ing together one
or more of the following values:
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<code class="literal">DB_READ_COMMITTED</code>
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Configure a transactional read operation to have degree 2 isolation
(the read is not repeatable).
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<code class="literal">DB_READ_UNCOMMITTED</code>
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Configure a transactional read operation to have degree 1 isolation,
reading modified but not yet committed data. Silently ignored if the
<a class="link" href="dbopen.html#dbopen_DB_READ_UNCOMMITTED">DB_READ_UNCOMMITTED</a>
flag was not specified when the underlying database was opened.
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<code class="literal">DB_RMW</code>
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Acquire write locks instead of read locks when doing the read, if locking is
configured. Setting this flag can eliminate deadlock during a read-modify-write
cycle by acquiring the write lock during the read part of the cycle so that
another thread of control acquiring a read lock for the same item, in its own
read-modify-write cycle, will not result in deadlock.
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Because the <code class="methodname">DB-&gt;exists()</code> method will not hold locks
across Berkeley DB calls in non-transactional operations, the
<a class="link" href="dbcget.html#dbcget_DB_RMW">DB_RMW</a> flag to the
<code class="methodname">DB-&gt;exists()</code> call is meaningful only in the presence
of transactions.
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