From 8ad25001ffed13d12d1e84705002cc799b6c8676 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hallvard Furuseth Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:14:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ITS#7485 Document key/data size limits in lmdb.h. mdb.c already describes them. The user doc should too. --- libraries/liblmdb/lmdb.h | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/libraries/liblmdb/lmdb.h b/libraries/liblmdb/lmdb.h index aaaa2922f1..220eea1c6a 100644 --- a/libraries/liblmdb/lmdb.h +++ b/libraries/liblmdb/lmdb.h @@ -192,7 +192,14 @@ typedef unsigned int MDB_dbi; /** @brief Opaque structure for navigating through a database */ typedef struct MDB_cursor MDB_cursor; -/** @brief Generic structure used for passing keys and data in and out of the database. */ +/** @brief Generic structure used for passing keys and data in and out + * of the database. + * + * Key sizes must be between 1 and the liblmdb build-time constant + * #MDB_MAXKEYSIZE inclusive. This currently defaults to 511. The + * same applies to data sizes in databases with the #MDB_DUPSORT flag. + * Other data items can in theory be from 0 to 0xffffffff bytes long. + */ typedef struct MDB_val { size_t mv_size; /**< size of the data item */ void *mv_data; /**< address of the data item */ -- 2.39.5