I know. But that is not my problem.

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Klaus Malorny <klaus.malo...@knipp.de>
wrote:

> On 6/19/17 10:31 AM, Muhammed Muneer wrote:
>
>> Sorry for the late reply, I was on vacation.
>>
>> Klaus wrote:
>> "I am still unsure what you are trying to achieve. If you are in a read
>> transaction and discover that your database does not exist, what can you do
>> anyway? You cannot create the database at this point, since it is a write
>> operation."
>>
>> When I discover a dbi does not exist in a read transaction, I can assume
>> it to be the same as a dbi which is empty and create it when and only when
>> there is a write-request into that dbi later.
>>
>>
>>
> To my understanding, the API does not prevent you from doing so. As long
> as you do not specify the MDB_CREATE flag, you can call mdb_dbi_open and
> will get informed whether the database exists or not (MDB_NOTFOUND).
>
> Klaus
>
>

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