Extracted from Pike v7.3 release 45 at 2002-06-04.
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Gdbm.gdbm
· `[]()
· `[]=()
· close()
· create()
· delete()
· fetch()
· firstkey()
· nextkey()
· reorganize()
· store()
· sync()
previousGdbm.gdbm()->nextkey()
Gdbm.gdbm()->store()next

Method Gdbm.gdbm()->reorganize()

Method reorganize

int Gdbm.gdbm()->reorganize()

Description

Deletions and insertions into the database can cause fragmentation which will make the database bigger. This routine reorganizes the contents to get rid of fragmentation. Note however that this function can take a LOT of time to run.