1<!--$Id: db_dump.so,v 1.3 2000/11/28 21:27:49 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 3.2: db_dump</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.3.2/notfound.html"><img src="/images/prev.gif" alt="Prev"></a><a href="/toc.html"><img src="/images/ref.gif" alt="Ref"></a><a href="/upgrade.3.2/disk.html"><img src="/images/next.gif" alt="Next"></a> 14</td></tr></table> 15<p align=center><b>Release 3.2: db_dump</b></p> 16<p>In previous releases of Berkeley DB, the <a href="/utility/db_dump.html">db_dump</a> utility dumped Recno 17access method database keys as numeric strings. For consistency, the 18<a href="/utility/db_dump.html">db_dump</a> utility has been changed in the 3.2 release to dump 19record numbers as hex pairs when the data items are being dumped as hex 20pairs. (See the <b>-k</b> and <b>-p</b> options to the 21<a href="/utility/db_dump.html">db_dump</a> utility for more information.) Any applications or 22scripts post-processing the <a href="/utility/db_dump.html">db_dump</a> output of Recno databases 23under these conditions may require modification.</p> 24<table width="100%"><tr><td><br></td><td align=right><a href="/upgrade.3.2/notfound.html"><img src="/images/prev.gif" alt="Prev"></a><a href="/toc.html"><img src="/images/ref.gif" alt="Ref"></a><a href="/upgrade.3.2/disk.html"><img src="/images/next.gif" alt="Next"></a> 25</td></tr></table> 26<p><font size=1>Copyright (c) 1996,2008 Oracle. All rights reserved.</font> 27</body> 28</html> 29