1<!--$Id: elect.so,v 1.1 2006/03/15 19:39:19 bostic Exp $--> 2<!--Copyright (c) 1997,2008 Oracle. All rights reserved.--> 3<!--See the file LICENSE for redistribution information.--> 4<html> 5<head> 6<title>Berkeley DB Reference Guide: Release 4.5: DB_ENV->rep_elect</title> 7<meta name="description" content="Berkeley DB: An embedded database programmatic toolkit."> 8<meta name="keywords" content="embedded,database,programmatic,toolkit,btree,hash,hashing,transaction,transactions,locking,logging,access method,access methods,Java,C,C++"> 9</head> 10<body bgcolor=white> 11<table width="100%"><tr valign=top> 12<td><b><dl><dt>Berkeley DB Reference Guide:<dd>Upgrading Berkeley DB Applications</dl></b></td> 13<td align=right><a href="/upgrade.4.5/alive.html"><img src="/images/prev.gif" alt="Prev"></a><a href="/toc.html"><img src="/images/ref.gif" alt="Ref"></a><a href="/upgrade.4.5/rep_set.html"><img src="/images/next.gif" alt="Next"></a> 14</td></tr></table> 15<p align=center><b>Release 4.5: DB_ENV->rep_elect</b></p> 16<p>Two of the historic arguments for the <a href="/api_c/rep_elect.html">DB_ENV->rep_elect</a> method have been moved 17from the interface to separate methods in order to make them available 18within the new replication manager framework.</p> 19<p>The <b>priority</b> parameter should now be explicitly set using the 20<a href="/api_c/rep_priority.html">DB_ENV->rep_set_priority</a> method. To upgrade existing replication applications 21to the Berkeley DB 4.5 <a href="/api_c/rep_elect.html">DB_ENV->rep_elect</a> interface, it may be simplest to 22insert a call to <a href="/api_c/rep_priority.html">DB_ENV->rep_set_priority</a> immediately before the 23existing call to <a href="/api_c/rep_elect.html">DB_ENV->rep_elect</a>. Alternatively, it may make more 24sense to add a single call to <a href="/api_c/rep_priority.html">DB_ENV->rep_set_priority</a> during database 25environment configuration.</p> 26<p>The <b>timeout</b> parameter should now be explicitly set using the 27<a href="/api_c/rep_timeout.html">DB_ENV->rep_set_timeout</a> method. To upgrade existing replication applications 28to the Berkeley DB 4.5 <a href="/api_c/rep_elect.html">DB_ENV->rep_elect</a> interface, it may be simplest to 29insert a call to <a href="/api_c/rep_timeout.html">DB_ENV->rep_set_timeout</a> immediately before the existing 30call to <a href="/api_c/rep_elect.html">DB_ENV->rep_elect</a>. Alternatively, it may make more sense to add 31a single call to <a href="/api_c/rep_timeout.html">DB_ENV->rep_set_timeout</a> during database environment 32configuration.</p> 33<table width="100%"><tr><td><br></td><td align=right><a href="/upgrade.4.5/alive.html"><img src="/images/prev.gif" alt="Prev"></a><a href="/toc.html"><img src="/images/ref.gif" alt="Ref"></a><a href="/upgrade.4.5/rep_set.html"><img src="/images/next.gif" alt="Next"></a> 34</td></tr></table> 35<p><font size=1>Copyright (c) 1996,2008 Oracle. All rights reserved.</font> 36</body> 37</html> 38
