<!--$Id: verify.so,v 1.5 2004/09/28 14:13:09 bostic Exp $--> <!--Copyright (c) 1997,2008 Oracle. All rights reserved.--> <!--See the file LICENSE for redistribution information.--> <html> <head> <title>Berkeley DB Reference Guide: Release 4.2: DB->verify</title> <meta name="description" content="Berkeley DB: An embedded database programmatic toolkit."> <meta name="keywords" content="embedded,database,programmatic,toolkit,btree,hash,hashing,transaction,transactions,locking,logging,access method,access methods,Java,C,C++"> </head> <body bgcolor=white> <table width="100%"><tr valign=top> <td><b><dl><dt>Berkeley DB Reference Guide:<dd>Upgrading Berkeley DB Applications</dl></b></td> <td align=right><a href="../upgrade.4.2/priority.html"><img src="../../images/prev.gif" alt="Prev"></a><a href="../toc.html"><img src="../../images/ref.gif" alt="Ref"></a><a href="../upgrade.4.2/lockng.html"><img src="../../images/next.gif" alt="Next"></a> </td></tr></table> <p align=center><b>Release 4.2: DB->verify</b></p> <p>In previous releases, applications calling the <a href="../../api_c/db_verify.html">DB->verify</a> method had to explicitly discard the <a href="../../api_c/db_class.html">DB</a> handle by calling the <a href="../../api_c/db_close.html">DB->close</a> method. Further, using the <a href="../../api_c/db_class.html">DB</a> handle in other ways after calling the <a href="../../api_c/db_verify.html">DB->verify</a> method was not prohibited by the documentation, although such use was likely to lead to problems.</p> <p>For consistency with other Berkeley DB methods, <a href="../../api_c/db_verify.html">DB->verify</a> method has been documented in the current release as a <a href="../../api_c/db_class.html">DB</a> handle destructor. Applications using the <a href="../../api_c/db_class.html">DB</a> handle in any way (including calling the <a href="../../api_c/db_close.html">DB->close</a> method) after calling <a href="../../api_c/db_verify.html">DB->verify</a> should be updated to make no further use of any kind of the <a href="../../api_c/db_class.html">DB</a> handle after <a href="../../api_c/db_verify.html">DB->verify</a> returns.</p> <table width="100%"><tr><td><br></td><td align=right><a href="../upgrade.4.2/priority.html"><img src="../../images/prev.gif" alt="Prev"></a><a href="../toc.html"><img src="../../images/ref.gif" alt="Ref"></a><a href="../upgrade.4.2/lockng.html"><img src="../../images/next.gif" alt="Next"></a> </td></tr></table> <p><font size=1>Copyright (c) 1996,2008 Oracle. All rights reserved.</font> </body> </html>