It never fails (bsddb retirement in 2.3)

[Martin v. Löwis]

eichin at metacarta.com writes:

> The bug was inherited somewhat from the dbm design - I seem to
> recall a test case that could "break" a dbm database in 10 to 30
> STOREs, if you knew the right things about chosing your own
> keys... and yes, it was based on a Real Customer Problem(tm).

Thanks, this gives interesting insights.

> I'm not sure that particular flag is exposed in the APIs at use
> here, though.  

It is: you have to ask for bsddb[185].btopen.

Regards,
Martin