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-.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
-.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
-.\"
-.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-4-Clause-UC
-.\"
-.\" @(#)btree.3 8.4 (Berkeley) 8/18/94
-.\"
-.TH btree 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
-.\".UC 7
-.SH NAME
-btree \- btree database access method
-.SH LIBRARY
-Standard C library
-.RI ( libc ", " \-lc )
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.nf
-.ft B
-#include <sys/types.h>
-#include <db.h>
-.ft R
-.fi
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-.IR "Note well" :
-This page documents interfaces provided up until glibc 2.1.
-Since glibc 2.2, glibc no longer provides these interfaces.
-Probably, you are looking for the APIs provided by the
-.I libdb
-library instead.
-.P
-The routine
-.BR dbopen (3)
-is the library interface to database files.
-One of the supported file formats is btree files.
-The general description of the database access methods is in
-.BR dbopen (3),
-this manual page describes only the btree-specific information.
-.P
-The btree data structure is a sorted, balanced tree structure storing
-associated key/data pairs.
-.P
-The btree access-method-specific data structure provided to
-.BR dbopen (3)
-is defined in the
-.I <db.h>
-include file as follows:
-.P
-.in +4n
-.EX
-typedef struct {
- unsigned long flags;
- unsigned int cachesize;
- int maxkeypage;
- int minkeypage;
- unsigned int psize;
- int (*compare)(const DBT *key1, const DBT *key2);
- size_t (*prefix)(const DBT *key1, const DBT *key2);
- int lorder;
-} BTREEINFO;
-.EE
-.in
-.P
-The elements of this structure are as follows:
-.TP
-.I flags
-The flag value is specified by ORing any of the following values:
-.RS
-.TP
-.B R_DUP
-Permit duplicate keys in the tree, that is,
-permit insertion if the key to be
-inserted already exists in the tree.
-The default behavior, as described in
-.BR dbopen (3),
-is to overwrite a matching key when inserting a new key or to fail if
-the
-.B R_NOOVERWRITE
-flag is specified.
-The
-.B R_DUP
-flag is overridden by the
-.B R_NOOVERWRITE
-flag, and if the
-.B R_NOOVERWRITE
-flag is specified, attempts to insert duplicate keys into
-the tree will fail.
-.IP
-If the database contains duplicate keys, the order of retrieval of
-key/data pairs is undefined if the
-.I get
-routine is used, however,
-.I seq
-routine calls with the
-.B R_CURSOR
-flag set will always return the logical
-"first" of any group of duplicate keys.
-.RE
-.TP
-.I cachesize
-A suggested maximum size (in bytes) of the memory cache.
-This value is
-.I only
-advisory, and the access method will allocate more memory rather than fail.
-Since every search examines the root page of the tree, caching the most
-recently used pages substantially improves access time.
-In addition, physical writes are delayed as long as possible, so a moderate
-cache can reduce the number of I/O operations significantly.
-Obviously, using a cache increases (but only increases) the likelihood of
-corruption or lost data if the system crashes while a tree is being modified.
-If
-.I cachesize
-is 0 (no size is specified), a default cache is used.
-.TP
-.I maxkeypage
-The maximum number of keys which will be stored on any single page.
-Not currently implemented.
-.\" The maximum number of keys which will be stored on any single page.
-.\" Because of the way the btree data structure works,
-.\" .I maxkeypage
-.\" must always be greater than or equal to 2.
-.\" If
-.\" .I maxkeypage
-.\" is 0 (no maximum number of keys is specified), the page fill factor is
-.\" made as large as possible (which is almost invariably what is wanted).
-.TP
-.I minkeypage
-The minimum number of keys which will be stored on any single page.
-This value is used to determine which keys will be stored on overflow
-pages, that is, if a key or data item is longer than the pagesize divided
-by the minkeypage value, it will be stored on overflow pages instead
-of in the page itself.
-If
-.I minkeypage
-is 0 (no minimum number of keys is specified), a value of 2 is used.
-.TP
-.I psize
-Page size is the size (in bytes) of the pages used for nodes in the tree.
-The minimum page size is 512 bytes and the maximum page size is 64\ KiB.
-If
-.I psize
-is 0 (no page size is specified), a page size is chosen based on the
-underlying filesystem I/O block size.
-.TP
-.I compare
-Compare is the key comparison function.
-It must return an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if the
-first key argument is considered to be respectively less than, equal to,
-or greater than the second key argument.
-The same comparison function must be used on a given tree every time it
-is opened.
-If
-.I compare
-is NULL (no comparison function is specified), the keys are compared
-lexically, with shorter keys considered less than longer keys.
-.TP
-.I prefix
-Prefix is the prefix comparison function.
-If specified, this routine must return the number of bytes of the second key
-argument which are necessary to determine that it is greater than the first
-key argument.
-If the keys are equal, the key length should be returned.
-Note, the usefulness of this routine is very data-dependent, but, in some
-data sets can produce significantly reduced tree sizes and search times.
-If
-.I prefix
-is NULL (no prefix function is specified),
-.I and
-no comparison function is specified, a default lexical comparison routine
-is used.
-If
-.I prefix
-is NULL and a comparison routine is specified, no prefix comparison is
-done.
-.TP
-.I lorder
-The byte order for integers in the stored database metadata.
-The number should represent the order as an integer; for example,
-big endian order would be the number 4,321.
-If
-.I lorder
-is 0 (no order is specified), the current host order is used.
-.P
-If the file already exists (and the
-.B O_TRUNC
-flag is not specified), the
-values specified for the arguments
-.IR flags ,
-.IR lorder ,
-and
-.I psize
-are ignored
-in favor of the values used when the tree was created.
-.P
-Forward sequential scans of a tree are from the least key to the greatest.
-.P
-Space freed up by deleting key/data pairs from the tree is never reclaimed,
-although it is normally made available for reuse.
-This means that the btree storage structure is grow-only.
-The only solutions are to avoid excessive deletions, or to create a fresh
-tree periodically from a scan of an existing one.
-.P
-Searches, insertions, and deletions in a btree will all complete in
-O lg base N where base is the average fill factor.
-Often, inserting ordered data into btrees results in a low fill factor.
-This implementation has been modified to make ordered insertion the best
-case, resulting in a much better than normal page fill factor.
-.SH ERRORS
-The
-.I btree
-access method routines may fail and set
-.I errno
-for any of the errors specified for the library routine
-.BR dbopen (3).
-.SH BUGS
-Only big and little endian byte order is supported.
-.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR dbopen (3),
-.BR hash (3),
-.BR mpool (3),
-.BR recno (3)
-.P
-.IR "The Ubiquitous B-tree" ,
-Douglas Comer, ACM Comput. Surv. 11, 2 (June 1979), 121-138.
-.P
-.IR "Prefix B-trees" ,
-Bayer and Unterauer, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol. 2, 1
-(March 1977), 11-26.
-.P
-.IR "The Art of Computer Programming Vol. 3: Sorting and Searching" ,
-D.E. Knuth, 1968, pp 471-480.