#include <db.h>

int
DB->sync(DB *db, u_int32_t flags);

The DB->sync method flushes any cached information to disk.

If the database is in memory only, the DB->sync method has no effect and will always succeed.

It is important to understand that flushing cached information to disk only minimizes the window of opportunity for corrupted data. Although unlikely, it is possible for database corruption to happen if a system or application crash occurs while writing data to the database. To ensure that database corruption never occurs, applications must either: use transactions and logging with automatic recovery; use logging and application-specific recovery; or edit a copy of the database, and once all applications using the database have successfully called DB->close, atomically replace the original database with the updated copy.

The DB->sync method returns a non-zero error value on failure and 0 on success.

• The flags parameter is currently unused, and must be set to 0.

The DB->sync method may fail and return one of the following non-zero errors:

• The database handle has been invalidated because a replication election unrolled a committed transaction.

• The operation was blocked by client/master synchronization.

• An invalid flag value or parameter was specified.