Claudio Grondi wrote: > Beside the intended database file > databaseFile.bdb > I see in same directory also the > __db.001 > __db.002 > __db.003 > files where > __db.003 is ten times as larger as the databaseFile.bdb > and > __db.001 has the same size as the databaseFile.bdb .
I can't tell you exactly what each is, but they are the files that the shared environment (DBEnv) uses to coordinate multi-process access to the database. In particular, the big one is likely the mmap'd cache (which defaults to 5Mb, I believe). You can safely delete them, but probably shouldn't while your program is executing. > Is there any _good_ documentation of the bsddb3 module around beside > this provided with this module itself, where it is not necessary e.g. to > guess, that C integer value of zero (0) is represented in Python by the > value None returned in case of success by db.open() ? This is the only documentation available, AFAIK: http://pybsddb.sourceforge.net/bsddb3.html For most of the important stuff it is necessary to dig into the bdb docs themselves. -Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
