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The DB_ENV Handle </th> <td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="envdbrename.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="envdbremove"></a>DB_ENV->dbremove()</h2> </div> </div> </div> <pre class="programlisting">#include <db.h> int DB_ENV->dbremove(DB_ENV *dbenv, DB_TXN *txnid, const char *file, const char *database, u_int32_t flags); </pre> <p> The <code class="methodname">DB_ENV->dbremove()</code> method removes the database specified by the <span class="bold"><strong>file</strong></span> and <span class="bold"><strong>database</strong></span> parameters. If no <span class="bold"><strong>database</strong></span> is specified, the underlying file represented by <span class="bold"><strong>file</strong></span> is removed, incidentally removing all of the databases it contained. </p> <p> Applications should never remove databases with open <a class="link" href="db.html" title="Chapter 2. The DB Handle">DB</a> handles, or in the case of removing a file, when any database in the file has an open handle. </p> <p> The <code class="methodname">DB_ENV->dbremove()</code> <span> <span> method returns a non-zero error value on failure and 0 on success. </span> </span> </p> <p> <code class="methodname">DB_ENV->dbremove()</code> is affected by any database directory specified using the <a class="xref" href="envset_data_dir.html" title="DB_ENV->set_data_dir()">DB_ENV->set_data_dir()</a> method, or by setting the <code class="literal">set_data_dir</code> string in the environment's <a href="../../programmer_reference/env_db_config.html#env_db_config.DB_CONFIG" class="olink">DB_CONFIG</a> file. </p> <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h3 class="title"><a id="id1661258"></a>Parameters</h3> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id1661269"></a>database</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> The <span class="bold"><strong>database</strong></span> parameter is the database to be removed. </p> </div> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id1661301"></a>file</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> The <span class="bold"><strong>file</strong></span> parameter is the physical file which contains the database(s) to be removed. </p> </div> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id1661206"></a>txnid</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> If the operation is part of an application-specified transaction, the <span class="bold"><strong>txnid</strong></span> parameter is a transaction handle returned from <a class="xref" href="txnbegin.html" title="DB_ENV->txn_begin()">DB_ENV->txn_begin()</a>; if the operation is part of a Berkeley DB Concurrent Data Store group, the <span class="bold"><strong>txnid</strong></span> parameter is a handle returned from <a class="xref" href="envcdsgroup_begin.html" title="DB_ENV->cdsgroup_begin()">DB_ENV->cdsgroup_begin()</a>; otherwise NULL. If no transaction handle is specified, but the <code class="literal">DB_AUTO_COMMIT</code> flag is specified to either this method or the environment handle, the operation will be implicitly transaction protected. </p> </div> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id1661185"></a>flags</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> The <span class="bold"><strong>flags</strong></span> parameter must be set to 0 or the following value: </p> <div class="itemizedlist"> <ul type="disc"> <li> <p> <code class="literal">DB_AUTO_COMMIT</code> </p> <p> Enclose the <code class="classname">DB_ENV->dbremove()</code> call within a transaction. If the call succeeds, changes made by the operation will be recoverable. If the call fails, the operation will have made no changes. </p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h3 class="title"><a id="id1661468"></a>Environment Variables</h3> </div> </div> </div> <p> The environment variable <code class="literal">DB_HOME</code> may be used as the path of the database environment home. </p> </div> <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h3 class="title"><a id="id1661454"></a>Errors</h3> </div> </div> </div> <p> The <code class="methodname">DB_ENV->dbremove()</code> <span> <span> method may fail and return one of the following non-zero errors: </span> </span> </p> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id1661337"></a>DB_LOCK_DEADLOCK</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> A transactional database environment operation was selected to resolve a deadlock. </p> </div> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id1661530"></a>DB_LOCK_NOTGRANTED</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> A Berkeley DB Concurrent Data Store database environment configured for lock timeouts was unable to grant a lock in the allowed time. </p> </div> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id1661204"></a>EINVAL</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> If the method was called before <a class="xref" href="envopen.html" title="DB_ENV->open()">DB_ENV->open()</a> was called; or if an invalid flag value or parameter was specified. </p> </div> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id1661519"></a>ENOENT</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> The file or directory does not exist. </p> </div> </div> <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h3 class="title"><a id="id1661535"></a>Class</h3> </div> </div> </div> <p> <a class="link" href="env.html" title="Chapter 5. 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