#include <db_cxx.h>

int
DbEnv::txn_recover(DB_PREPLIST preplist[],
    long count, long *retp, u_int32_t flags);

Database environment recovery restores transactions that were prepared, but not yet resolved at the time of the system shut down or crash, to their state prior to the shut down or crash, including any locks previously held. The DbEnv::txn_recover method returns a list of those prepared transactions.

The DbEnv::txn_recover method should only be called after the environment has been recovered.

Multiple threads of control may call DbEnv::txn_recover, but only one thread of control may resolve each returned transaction, that is, only one thread of control may call DbTxn::commit or DbTxn::abort on each returned transaction. Callers of DbEnv::txn_recover must call DbTxn::discard to discard each transaction they do not resolve.

On return from DbEnv::txn_recover, the preplist parameter will be filled in with a list of transactions that must be resolved by the application (committed, aborted or discarded). The preplist parameter is a structure of type DB_PREPLIST; the following DB_PREPLIST fields will be filled in:

• The transaction handle for the transaction.

• The global transaction ID for the transaction. The global transaction ID is the one specified when the transaction was prepared. The application is responsible for ensuring uniqueness among global transaction IDs.

The DbEnv::txn_recover method either returns a non-zero error value or throws an exception that encapsulates a non-zero error value on failure, and returns 0 on success.

• The count parameter specifies the number of available entries in the passed-in preplist array. The retp parameter returns the number of entries DbEnv::txn_recover has filled in, in the array.

• The flags parameter must be set to one of the following values:
  DB_FIRST
  • Begin returning a list of prepared, but not yet resolved transactions. Specifying this flag begins a new pass over all prepared, but not yet completed transactions, regardless of whether they have already been returned in previous calls to DbEnv::txn_recover. Calls to DbEnv::txn_recover from different threads of control should not be intermixed in the same environment.
  DB_NEXT
  • Continue returning a list of prepared, but not yet resolved transactions, starting where the last call to DbEnv::txn_recover left off.
  
  

• The preplist parameter references memory into which the list of transactions to be resolved by the application is copied.