<div dir="ltr">Hello everyone,<div><br></div><div>There is a convenience method join_item() in the cursor class for iterating through join cursors with the flag DB_JOIN_ITEM. This flag causes the method to return the primary key only, and not the data. To get the key and data, one is supposed to call cursor->get() with flags = 0. This can easily be done with the python bindings (cursor.get(flags=0) does the trick), but I'm wondering if there should be a convenience method that does this, since the documentation stresses that one should never have to call get() directly.</div>
<div><br></div><div style>And now a question: as I'm debugging my code on a test database, I sometimes find that python hangs and I am forced to close it down forcefully. I'm worried that this leaves cursors and/or db handles open, because upon restarting after one of these instances, I find that python hangs everytime I do a cursor->get(), for example. If I rebuild my database from scratch, I am again problem free and don't hang until I mess up again. For the record I'm using DB_AUTO_COMMIT, using a single thread, and generally not doing anything that I imagine could corrupt the database. I could be wrong...</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>My question is this: is there something I can do to recover from this situation that doesn't involve dumping and rebuilding the database? It occurs to me that I haven't tried rebooting, but perhaps there is some magic that shuts down abandoned handles and makes everything happy again?</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Thanks so much, I'm really enjoying using this new tool, with just a few kinks...</div><div style><br></div><div style>Ryan</div></div>