[Python-checkins] cpython (merge 3.2 -> default): Remove obsolete references to bsddb

[antoine.pitrou]

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e80a4e3b799b
changeset:   73855:e80a4e3b799b
parent:      73852:f0008683585c
parent:      73854:1494e021cb9f
user:        Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>
date:        Mon Dec 05 00:41:51 2011 +0100
summary:
  Remove obsolete references to bsddb

files:
  Doc/faq/library.rst |  44 ---------------------------------
  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)


diff --git a/Doc/faq/library.rst b/Doc/faq/library.rst
--- a/Doc/faq/library.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/library.rst
@@ -814,52 +814,6 @@
 general such as using gdbm with pickle/shelve.
 
 
-If my program crashes with a bsddb (or anydbm) database open, it gets corrupted. How come?
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-
-.. XXX move this FAQ entry elsewhere?
-
-.. note::
-
-   The bsddb module is now available as a standalone package `pybsddb
-   <http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm>`_.
-
-Databases opened for write access with the bsddb module (and often by the anydbm
-module, since it will preferentially use bsddb) must explicitly be closed using
-the ``.close()`` method of the database.  The underlying library caches database
-contents which need to be converted to on-disk form and written.
-
-If you have initialized a new bsddb database but not written anything to it
-before the program crashes, you will often wind up with a zero-length file and
-encounter an exception the next time the file is opened.
-
-
-I tried to open Berkeley DB file, but bsddb produces bsddb.error: (22, 'Invalid argument'). Help! How can I restore my data?
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-
-.. XXX move this FAQ entry elsewhere?
-
-.. note::
-
-   The bsddb module is now available as a standalone package `pybsddb
-   <http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm>`_.
-
-Don't panic! Your data is probably intact. The most frequent cause for the error
-is that you tried to open an earlier Berkeley DB file with a later version of
-the Berkeley DB library.
-
-Many Linux systems now have all three versions of Berkeley DB available.  If you
-are migrating from version 1 to a newer version use db_dump185 to dump a plain
-text version of the database.  If you are migrating from version 2 to version 3
-use db2_dump to create a plain text version of the database.  In either case,
-use db_load to create a new native database for the latest version installed on
-your computer.  If you have version 3 of Berkeley DB installed, you should be
-able to use db2_load to create a native version 2 database.
-
-You should move away from Berkeley DB version 1 files because the hash file code
-contains known bugs that can corrupt your data.
-
-
 Mathematics and Numerics
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