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.\" Copyright (c) 2007 Tokutek. All Rights Reserved.
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.TH DB->del 3 "November 2007" Tokutek "TokuDB Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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DB->del
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.LP
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\fB #include <db.h>
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.br
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.sp
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.HP 12
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.BI "int DB->del(DB *" db ,
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.br
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.BI "DB_TXN *" txnid ,
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.BI "DBT *" key ,
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.br
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.BI "u_int32_t " flags );
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.br
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B DB->del
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removes all the key/data pairs that match \fIkey\fR. If there are
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duplicates, all matching records are removed.
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When called on a secondary index (associated via
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\fBDB->associate(3)\fR), all the matching keys in the secondary
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database are used to identify keys/data pairs in the primary database.
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The keys in the primary are all removed, and all the corresponding
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records in all the secondary indices are removed.
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.SH PARAMETERS
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.IP \fIdb
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The \fBDB\fR handle for the database\fR.
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.IP \fItxnid
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Either \fBNULL\fR or a \fBTXNID\fR.
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.IP \fIkey
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The key to be deleted.
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.IP \fIflags
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Must be zero or \fBDB_DELETE_ANY\fR.
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Using \fBDB_DELETE_ANY\fR causes \fBDB->del()\fR to return 0 even if
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there are no matching key/data pairs.
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.SH RETURN VALUE
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.LP
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Returns zero on success. Success is defined to be that either there
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was at least one matching key/data pair and it was deleted, or there
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were no matching key/data pairs and \fBDB_DELETE_ANY\fR was passed
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(and nothing else went wrong.)
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The following non-zero values can be returned:
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.IP \fBDB_NOTFOUND
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If the flags do not include \fBDB_DELETE_ANY\fR and there was no
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matching key/data pair, then return \fBDB_NOTFOUND\fR.
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.IP \fBDB_DEADLOCK
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The system discovered deadlock cycle involving this and other transactions.
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This operation was killed.
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.IP \fBDB_LOCK_NOTGRANTED
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In an environment configured for lock timeouts, the system was unable to grant a lock within the allowed time.
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.IP \fBEINVAL
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You passed invalid parameters to this operation. In many cases
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\fBEINVAL\fR
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is not a very helpful error code, indicating only that you did something wrong.
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.SH PERFORMANCE DISCUSSION
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Performing a deletion without \fBDB_DELETE_ANY\fR is relatively
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expensive. For example, suppose you have a large database that is
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stored on disk and is much larger than main memory. Then
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\fBDB->get()\fR using a randomly selected key usually requires at
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least one disk-head movement, limiting you about 100 to 150 get
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operations per second per disk drive. A delete operation that doesn't
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require the \fBDB_NOTFOUND\fR result to be computed can run much
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faster, however (orders of magnitude faster in some cases.) For the
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\fBDB->del\fR operation to compute the \fBDB_NOTFOUND\fR result
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requires a get, which slows down the deletions.
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However, suppose that the key you are deleting is already in main
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memory (because you recently accessed it). In that case, there is
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likely to be little or no performance difference between using
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\fBDB_DELETE_ANY\fR or not.
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Associated secondary indexes can also slow down deletion operations,
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since TokuDB performs a \fBDB->get\fR to get the primary key/data pair
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so that it can use the callback function to compute all the secondary
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keys that must be deleted.
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One way to achieve fast deletions with secondary indices is to design
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your primary key so that contiguous ranges will be removed from your
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database at the same time. For example, if you design your primary
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key to be a timestamp, and you expire the oldest data first, then
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deletions can run fast: Use a cursor to find the leftmost item, and
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delete it, move right, delete some more, and so forth. The cursor
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scan is fast, and the deletes on all the secondary keys will be fast
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too.
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.SH CONFORMING TO
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The TokuDB embedded database provides a subset of the functionality of
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the Berkeley DB. Programs that work with TokuDB probably work with
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with most versions of Berkeley DB with only recompilation or
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relinking. The database files are incompatible, however, so to
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convert from one library to the other you would need to dump the
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database with one library's tool and load it with the other's.
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.SH AUTHOR
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Tokutek, Inc.
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.SH COPYRIGHT
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Copyright (c) 2007 Tokutek. All Rights Reserved.
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