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The 44 host byte order of the machine where the Berkeley DB library was 45 compiled will be used if no byte order is set. 46 </p> 47 <p> 48 <span class="bold"><strong>The access methods provide no guarantees about 49 the byte ordering of the application data stored in the database, and 50 applications are responsible for maintaining any necessary 51 ordering.</strong></span> 52 </p> 53 <p> 54 The <code class="methodname">DB->set_lorder()</code> method configures a database, not only 55 operations performed using the specified <a class="link" href="db.html" title="Chapter��2.�� The DB Handle">DB</a> 56 handle. 57 </p> 58 <p> 59 The <code class="methodname">DB->set_lorder()</code> method may not be called after the 60 <a class="xref" href="dbopen.html" title="DB->open()">DB->open()</a> method is called. If 61 the database already exists when <a class="xref" href="dbopen.html" title="DB->open()">DB->open()</a> 62 is called, the information specified to <code class="methodname">DB->set_lorder()</code> will be ignored. 63 </p> 64 <p> 65 66 If creating additional databases in a single physical file, 67 information specified to 68 <code class="methodname">DB->set_lorder()</code> will be ignored and the 69 byte order of the existing databases will be used. 70 71 </p> 72 <p> 73 The <code class="methodname">DB->set_lorder()</code> <span> 74 <span> 75 method returns a non-zero error value on failure and 0 on success. 76 </span> 77 78 </span> 79 </p> 80 <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> 81 <div class="titlepage"> 82 <div> 83 <div> 84 <h3 class="title"><a id="id1648142"></a>Parameters</h3> 85 </div> 86 </div> 87 </div> 88 <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> 89 <div class="titlepage"> 90 <div> 91 <div> 92 <h4 class="title"><a id="id1648254"></a>lorder</h4> 93 </div> 94 </div> 95 </div> 96 <p> 97 The <span class="bold"><strong>lorder</strong></span> parameter should represent 98 the byte order as an integer; for example, big endian order is the 99 number 4,321, and little endian order is the number 1,234. 100 </p> 101 </div> 102 </div> 103 <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> 104 <div class="titlepage"> 105 <div> 106 <div> 107 <h3 class="title"><a id="id1648379"></a>Errors</h3> 108 </div> 109 </div> 110 </div> 111 <p> 112 The <code class="methodname">DB->set_lorder()</code> <span> 113 <span> 114 method may fail and return one of the following non-zero errors: 115 </span> 116 117 </span> 118 </p> 119 <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> 120 <div class="titlepage"> 121 <div> 122 <div> 123 <h4 class="title"><a id="id1648305"></a>EINVAL</h4> 124 </div> 125 </div> 126 </div> 127 <p> 128 If the method was called after <a class="xref" href="dbopen.html" title="DB->open()">DB->open()</a> 129 was called; or if an invalid flag value or parameter was specified. 130 </p> 131 </div> 132 </div> 133 <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> 134 <div class="titlepage"> 135 <div> 136 <div> 137 <h3 class="title"><a id="id1648281"></a>Class</h3> 138 </div> 139 </div> 140 </div> 141 <p> 142 <a class="link" href="db.html" title="Chapter��2.�� The DB Handle">DB</a> 143 </p> 144 </div> 145 <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> 146 <div class="titlepage"> 147 <div> 148 <div> 149 <h3 class="title"><a id="id1648145"></a>See Also</h3> 150 </div> 151 </div> 152 </div> 153 <p> 154 <a class="xref" href="db.html#dblist" title="Database and Related Methods">Database and Related Methods</a> 155 </p> 156 </div> 157 </div> 158 <div class="navfooter"> 159 <hr /> 160 <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> 161 <tr> 162 <td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dbset_h_nelem.html">Prev</a>��</td> 163 <td width="20%" align="center"> 164 <a accesskey="u" href="db.html">Up</a> 165 </td> 166 <td width="40%" align="right">��<a accesskey="n" href="dbset_msgcall.html">Next</a></td> 167 </tr> 168 <tr> 169 <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">DB->set_h_nelem()��</td> 170 <td width="20%" align="center"> 171 <a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a> 172 </td> 173 <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top">��DB->set_msgcall()</td> 174 </tr> 175 </table> 176 </div> 177 </body> 178</html> 179