<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>DB_ENV->rep_elect</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="gettingStarted.css" type="text/css" /> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.73.2" /> <link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Berkeley DB Upgrade Guide" /> <link rel="up" href="upgrade_4_5_toc.html" title="Chapter 5. Upgrading Berkeley DB 4.4 applications to Berkeley DB 4.5" /> <link rel="prev" href="upgrade_4_5_alive.html" title="DB->set_isalive" /> <link rel="next" href="upgrade_4_5_rep_set.html" title="Replication method naming" /> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center">DB_ENV->rep_elect</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="upgrade_4_5_alive.html">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 5. Upgrading Berkeley DB 4.4 applications to Berkeley DB 4.5</th> <td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="upgrade_4_5_rep_set.html">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr /> </div> <div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="upgrade_4_5_elect"></a>DB_ENV->rep_elect</h2> </div> </div> </div> <p>Two of the historic arguments for the <a href="../api_reference/C/repelect.html" class="olink">DB_ENV->rep_elect()</a> method have been moved from the interface to separate methods in order to make them available within the new replication manager framework.</p> <p>The <span class="bold"><strong>priority</strong></span> parameter should now be explicitly set using the <a href="../api_reference/C/reppriority.html" class="olink">DB_ENV->rep_set_priority()</a> method. To upgrade existing replication applications to the Berkeley DB 4.5 <a href="../api_reference/C/repelect.html" class="olink">DB_ENV->rep_elect()</a> interface, it may be simplest to insert a call to <a href="../api_reference/C/reppriority.html" class="olink">DB_ENV->rep_set_priority()</a> immediately before the existing call to <a href="../api_reference/C/repelect.html" class="olink">DB_ENV->rep_elect()</a>. Alternatively, it may make more sense to add a single call to <a href="../api_reference/C/reppriority.html" class="olink">DB_ENV->rep_set_priority()</a> during database environment configuration.</p> <p>The <span class="bold"><strong>timeout</strong></span> parameter should now be explicitly set using the <a href="../api_reference/C/repset_timeout.html" class="olink">DB_ENV->rep_set_timeout()</a> method. To upgrade existing replication applications to the Berkeley DB 4.5 <a href="../api_reference/C/repelect.html" class="olink">DB_ENV->rep_elect()</a> interface, it may be simplest to insert a call to <a href="../api_reference/C/repset_timeout.html" class="olink">DB_ENV->rep_set_timeout()</a> immediately before the existing call to <a href="../api_reference/C/repelect.html" class="olink">DB_ENV->rep_elect()</a>. Alternatively, it may make more sense to add a single call to <a href="../api_reference/C/repset_timeout.html" class="olink">DB_ENV->rep_set_timeout()</a> during database environment configuration.</p> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr /> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="upgrade_4_5_alive.html">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="u" href="upgrade_4_5_toc.html">Up</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="upgrade_4_5_rep_set.html">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">DB->set_isalive </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Replication method naming</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>