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Access Method Configuration
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Configuring the Heap access method is fairly simple. Beyond the general
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configuration required for any access method, you can configure how large
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the database will become, as well as the amount by which the database grows.
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If you provide no configuration relative to the heap size, then the
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database will grow without bound. Whether this is desirable depends on
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how much disk space is available to your application.
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You can limit the size of the on-disk database file by using the
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<a href="../api_reference/C/dbset_heapsize.html" class="olink">DB->set_heapsize()</a> method. If the size specified on this method is
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reached, then further attempts to insert/update records will fail
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with a <code class="literal">DB_HEAP_FULL</code> error message.
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Heap databases are organized into regions, and each region is a constant
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size. The size of the region in a heap database is limited by the page
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size, the first page of the region contains a bitmap describing the
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available space on the remaining pages in the region. When the database
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experiences write contention, a region is added to reduce contention.
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This means heap databases can grow in size very quickly. In order to
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control the amount by which the database increases, the size of the region
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is configurable via <a href="../api_reference/C/dbset_heap_regionsize.html" class="olink">DB->set_heap_regionsize()</a>.
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