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<title>Berkeley DB: DB->sync</title>
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<b>DB->sync</b>
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<a href="../api_c/api_core.html"><img src="../images/api.gif" alt="API"></a>
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<b><pre>
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#include <db.h>
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<p>
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int
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DB->sync(DB *db, u_int32_t flags);
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</pre></b>
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<b>Description: DB->sync</b>
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<p>The DB->sync method flushes any cached information to disk.</p>
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<p>If the database is in memory only, the DB->sync method has no effect and
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will always succeed.</p>
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<p><b>It is important to understand that flushing cached information to disk
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only minimizes the window of opportunity for corrupted data.</b> Although
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unlikely, it is possible for database corruption to happen if a system
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or application crash occurs while writing data to the database. To
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ensure that database corruption never occurs, applications must either:
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use transactions and logging with automatic recovery; use logging and
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application-specific recovery; or edit a copy of the database, and once
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all applications using the database have successfully called
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<a href="../api_c/db_close.html">DB->close</a>, atomically replace the original database with the
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updated copy.</p>
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<p>The DB->sync method
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returns a non-zero error value on failure
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and 0 on success.
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<b>Parameters</b> <br>
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<b>flags</b><ul compact><li>The <b>flags</b> parameter is currently unused, and must be set to 0.</ul>
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<br>
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<br><b>Errors</b>
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<p>The DB->sync method
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may fail and return one of the following non-zero errors:</p>
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<br>
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<b>DB_REP_HANDLE_DEAD</b><ul compact><li>The database handle has been invalidated because a replication election
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unrolled a committed transaction.</ul>
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<br>
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<br>
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<b>DB_REP_LOCKOUT</b><ul compact><li>The operation was blocked by client/master synchronization.</ul>
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<b>EINVAL</b><ul compact><li>An
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invalid flag value or parameter was specified.</ul>
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<br><b>Class</b>
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<a href="../api_c/db_class.html">DB</a>
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<br><b>See Also</b>
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<a href="../api_c/db_list.html">Databases and Related Methods</a>
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