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When you use transactional cursors with a concurrent application, remember that
in the event of a deadlock you must make sure that you close your cursor before you abort and retry your
transaction.
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Also, remember that when you are using the default isolation level,
every time your cursor reads a record it locks
that record until the encompassing transaction is resolved. This
means that walking your database with a transactional cursor
increases the chance of lock contention.
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For this reason, if you must routinely walk your database with a
transactional cursor, consider using a reduced isolation level
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As described in <a class="xref" href="isolation.html#dirtyreads" title="Reading Uncommitted Data">Reading Uncommitted Data</a>
above, it is possible to relax your transaction's isolation
level such that it can read data modified but not yet committed
by another transaction. You can configure this when you create
your transaction handle, and when you do so then all cursors opened
inside that transaction will automatically use uncommitted reads.
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You can also do this when you create a cursor handle from within
a serializable transaction. When you do this, only those
cursors configured for uncommitted reads uses uncommitted reads.
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Either way, you must first configure your database
handle to support
uncommitted reads before you can configure your transactions or
your cursors to use them.
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The following example shows how to configure an individual cursor handle
to read uncommitted data from within a serializable (full isolation) transaction.
For an example of
configuring a transaction to perform uncommitted reads in
general, see <a class="xref" href="isolation.html#dirtyreads" title="Reading Uncommitted Data">Reading Uncommitted Data</a>.
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int main(void)
{
u_int32_t env_flags = DB_CREATE | // If the environment does not
// exist, create it.
DB_INIT_LOCK | // Initialize locking
DB_INIT_LOG | // Initialize logging
DB_INIT_MPOOL | // Initialize the cache
DB_INIT_TXN; // Initialize transactions
u_int32_t db_flags = DB_CREATE | // Create the db if it does
// not exist
DB_AUTO_COMMIT | // Enable auto commit
DB_READ_UNCOMMITTED; // Enable uncommitted reads
Db *dbp = NULL;
const char *file_name = "mydb.db";
std::string envHome("/export1/testEnv");
DbEnv myEnv(0);
Dbc *cursorp = NULL;
try {
myEnv.open(envHome.c_str(), env_flags, 0);
dbp = new Db(&amp;myEnv, 0);
dbp-&gt;open(NULL, // Txn pointer
file_name, // File name
NULL, // Logical db name
DB_BTREE, // Database type (using btree)
db_flags, // Open flags
0); // File mode. Using defaults
DbTxn *txn = NULL;
myEnv.txn_begin(NULL, &amp;txn, 0);
try {
// Get our cursor. Note that we pass the transaction
// handle here. Note also that we pass the
// DB_READ_UNCOMMITTED flag here so as to cause the
// cursor to perform uncommitted reads.
db.cursor(txn, &amp;cursorp, DB_READ_UNCOMMITTED);
// From here, you perform your cursor reads and writes
// as normal, committing and aborting the transactions as
// is necessary, and testing for deadlock exceptions as
// normal (omitted for brevity).
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