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<h1>DB-&gt;rename</h1>
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#include &lt;db.h&gt;
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int
DB-&gt;rename(DB *db, const char *file,
	const char *database, const char *newname, u_int32_t flags);
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<h1>Description</h1>
<p>The DB-&gt;rename interface renames the database specified by the
<b>file</b> and <b>database</b> arguments to <b>newname</b>.  If no
<b>database</b> is specified, the physical file represented by
<b>file</b> is renamed, incidentally renaming all databases that it
contained.
<p>If a physical file is being renamed and logging is currently enabled in
the database environment, no database in the file may be open when the
DB-&gt;rename function is called.  Otherwise, no reference count of database
use is maintained by Berkeley DB.  Applications should not rename databases that
are currently in use.  In particular, some architectures do not permit
renaming files with open handles.  On these architectures, attempts to
rename databases that are currently in use will fail.
<p>The <b>flags</b> parameter is currently unused, and must be set to 0.
<p>Once DB-&gt;rename has been called, regardless of its return, the
DB handle may not be accessed again.
<p>The DB-&gt;rename function returns a non-zero error value on failure and 0 on success.
<h1>Environment Variables</h1>
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<p><dt>DB_HOME<dd>If the <b>dbenv</b> argument to <a href="../api_c/db_create.html">db_create</a> was initialized using
<a href="../api_c/env_open.html">DBENV-&gt;open</a> the environment variable <b>DB_HOME</b> may be used
as the path of the database environment home.  Specifically, DB-&gt;rename
is affected by the configuration value DB_DATA_DIR.
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<h1>Errors</h1>
<p>The DB-&gt;rename function may fail and return a non-zero error for the following conditions:
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<p><dt>EINVAL<dd>A database in the file is currently open.
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<p>The DB-&gt;rename function may fail and return a non-zero error for errors specified for other Berkeley DB and C library or system functions.
If a catastrophic error has occurred, the DB-&gt;rename function may fail and return
<a href="../ref/program/errorret.html#DB_RUNRECOVERY">DB_RUNRECOVERY</a>, in which case all subsequent Berkeley DB calls will fail
in the same way.
<h1>See Also</h1>
<a href="../api_c/db_create.html">db_create</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_close.html">DB-&gt;close</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_cursor.html">DB-&gt;cursor</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_del.html">DB-&gt;del</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_err.html">DB-&gt;err</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_fd.html">DB-&gt;fd</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_get.html">DB-&gt;get</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_get_byteswapped.html">DB-&gt;get_byteswapped</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_get_type.html">DB-&gt;get_type</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_join.html">DB-&gt;join</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_key_range.html">DB-&gt;key_range</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_open.html">DB-&gt;open</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_put.html">DB-&gt;put</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_remove.html">DB-&gt;remove</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_set_bt_compare.html">DB-&gt;set_bt_compare</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_set_bt_minkey.html">DB-&gt;set_bt_minkey</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_set_bt_prefix.html">DB-&gt;set_bt_prefix</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_set_cachesize.html">DB-&gt;set_cachesize</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_set_dup_compare.html">DB-&gt;set_dup_compare</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_set_errcall.html">DB-&gt;set_errcall</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_set_errfile.html">DB-&gt;set_errfile</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_set_errpfx.html">DB-&gt;set_errpfx</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_set_flags.html">DB-&gt;set_flags</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_set_h_ffactor.html">DB-&gt;set_h_ffactor</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_set_h_hash.html">DB-&gt;set_h_hash</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_set_h_nelem.html">DB-&gt;set_h_nelem</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_set_lorder.html">DB-&gt;set_lorder</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_set_malloc.html">DB-&gt;set_malloc</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_set_pagesize.html">DB-&gt;set_pagesize</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_set_paniccall.html">DB-&gt;set_paniccall</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_set_q_extentsize.html">DB-&gt;set_q_extentsize</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_set_realloc.html">DB-&gt;set_realloc</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_set_re_delim.html">DB-&gt;set_re_delim</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_set_re_len.html">DB-&gt;set_re_len</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_set_re_pad.html">DB-&gt;set_re_pad</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_set_re_source.html">DB-&gt;set_re_source</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_stat.html">DB-&gt;stat</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_sync.html">DB-&gt;sync</a>,
<a href="../api_c/db_upgrade.html">DB-&gt;upgrade</a>
and
<a href="../api_c/db_verify.html">DB-&gt;verify</a>.
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