<?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>open_db</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="apiReference.css" type="text/css" /> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.73.2" /> <link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Berkeley DB C++ Standard Template Library API Reference" /> <link rel="up" href="dbstl_global_functions.html" title="Chapter 1. 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Users don't need to delete or free the memory of the returned object, dbstl will take care of that. When you don't use <a class="link" href="stldbstl_global_functionsopen_db.html" title="open_db">dbstl::open_db()</a> but explicitly call DB C++ API to open a database, you must new the Db object, rather than create it on stack, and you must delete the Db object by yourself. </p> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="idp49946664"></a>Parameters</h4> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect4" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h5 class="title"><a id="idp49946856"></a>penv</h5> </div> </div> </div> <p>The environment to open the database from. </p> </div> <div class="sect4" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h5 class="title"><a id="idp49949128"></a>txn</h5> </div> </div> </div> <p>The transaction to open the database from, passed to Db::open. </p> </div> <div class="sect4" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h5 class="title"><a id="idp49949520"></a>dbtype</h5> </div> </div> </div> <p>The database type, passed to Db::open. </p> </div> <div class="sect4" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h5 class="title"><a id="idp49949840"></a>oflags</h5> </div> </div> </div> <p>The database open flags, passed to Db::open. </p> </div> <div class="sect4" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h5 class="title"><a id="idp49950160"></a>filename</h5> </div> </div> </div> <p>The database file name, passed to Db::open. </p> </div> <div class="sect4" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h5 class="title"><a id="idp49950536"></a>mode</h5> </div> </div> </div> <p>The database open mode, passed to Db::open. </p> </div> <div class="sect4" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h5 class="title"><a id="idp49950912"></a>cflags</h5> </div> </div> </div> <p>The create flags passed to Db class constructor. </p> </div> <div class="sect4" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h5 class="title"><a id="idp49951288"></a>dbname</h5> </div> </div> </div> <p>The database name, passed to Db::open. </p> </div> <div class="sect4" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h5 class="title"><a id="idp49951664"></a>set_flags</h5> </div> </div> </div> <p>The flags to be set to the created database handle. </p> </div> </div> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="idp49944128"></a>Return Value</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p>The opened database handle. </p> </div> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="idp49952048"></a>See Also</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> </p> <p><a class="link" href="stldbstl_global_functionsregister_db.html" title="register_db">register_db(Db *)</a> ; </p> <p> </p> <p>open_db_env; </p> <p> </p> </div> </div> <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h3 class="title"><a id="idp49928856"></a>Class</h3> </div> </div> </div> <p> <a class="link" href="dbstl_global_functions.html" title="Chapter 1. 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