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@@ -1,14 +1,21 @@ -GNU dbm NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2018-05-25 +GNU dbm NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2018-06-16 Copyright (C) 1990-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of file for copying conditions. Please send gdbm bug reports to <bug-gdbm@gnu.org>. -Version 1.14.90 +Version 1.15 - 2018-06-15 -FIXME: BUMP VI_MAJOR +* Extensive database consistency checking -* Implement database consistency checks +GDBM tries to detect inconsistencies in input database files as +early as possible. When an inconcistency is detected, a helpful +diagnostics is returned and the database is marked as needing +recovery. From this moment on, any GDBM function trying to access +the database will immediately return error code (instead of +eventually segfaulting as previous versions did). In order to +reconstruct the database and return it to healthy state, the +gdbm_recover function should be used. Special thanks to Lionel Debroux and Craig Young for investing their time and efforts in testing and providing valuable feedback. @@ -33,7 +40,7 @@ e.g.: * New member in the gdbm_recovery structure: duplicate_keys. Upon return from gdbm_recover, this member holds the number of keys -that were not recovered, because the same key has already been stored +that has not been recovered, because the same key had already been stored in the database. The actual number of stored keys is thus recovered_keys - duplicate_keys. |