NAME

cdbtest - check a constant database

SYNOPSIS

cdbtest

DESCRIPTION

cdbtest reads a (seekable) constant database from its standard input. For each record in the database, it double-checks that the record can be found by its key. It prints tallies in several categories:

• found is the number of records found correctly by their keys.

• different record is the number of records where a different record was found with the same key. This should not happen unless the database has multiple records with the same key.

• bad length is the number of records found but with the wrong data length. This should never happen.

• not found is the number of records not found. This should never happen.

• untested is the number of records with keys longer than 1024 bytes. cdbtest doesn't bother testing these records.

There is also a cdb64test that uses cdb64 format instead of cdb format.

SEE ALSO

cdbget(1), cdbmake(1), cdbstats(1)

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