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<pre class="programlisting">#include &lt;db.h&gt;
int
DB-&gt;set_h_hash(DB *db,
u_int32_t (*h_hash_fcn)(DB *dbp, const void *bytes,
u_int32_t length)); </pre>
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Set a user-defined hash function; if no hash function is specified, a
default hash function is used. Because no hash function performs
equally well on all possible data, the user may find that the built-in
hash function performs poorly with a particular data set.
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The <code class="methodname">DB-&gt;set_h_hash()</code> method configures operations performed using the
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The <span class="bold"><strong>h_hash_fcn</strong></span> parameter is the
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Application-specified hash functions take a pointer to a byte string
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