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      <pre class="programlisting">#include &lt;db_cxx.h&gt;
 
int
Db::truncate(DbTxn *txnid, u_int32_t *countp, u_int32_t flags);</pre>
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         The <code class="methodname">Db::truncate()</code> method empties the database, discarding all
         records it contains.  The number of records discarded from the
         database is returned in <span class="bold"><strong>countp</strong></span>.
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         When called on a database configured with secondary indices using the
         <a class="xref" href="dbassociate.html" title="Db::associate()">Db::associate()</a> 
         method, the <code class="methodname">Db::truncate()</code> method truncates the primary database and
         all secondary indices.  A count of the records discarded from the
         primary database is returned.
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         It is an error to call the <code class="methodname">Db::truncate()</code> method on a database with
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         The <code class="methodname">Db::truncate()</code> <span>
            
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                exception that encapsulates a non-zero error value on
                failure, and returns 0 on success.
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                          If the operation is part of an application-specified transaction, the
                          <span class="bold"><strong>txnid</strong></span> parameter is a transaction
                          handle returned from <a class="xref" href="txnbegin.html" title="DbEnv::txn_begin()">DbEnv::txn_begin()</a>; if the
                          operation is part of a Berkeley DB Concurrent Data Store group, the
                          <span class="bold"><strong>txnid</strong></span> parameter is a handle returned
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                          The <span class="bold"><strong>countp</strong></span> parameter references
                          memory into which  the number of records discarded from the database
                          is copied.
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                A transactional database environment operation was selected to resolve
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                your Berkeley DB API is configured to throw exceptions.
                Otherwise, <code class="literal">DB_LOCK_DEADLOCK</code> is returned.
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                A Berkeley DB Concurrent Data Store database environment configured
                for lock timeouts was unable to grant a lock in the allowed time.
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                for no waiting exclusive locking, but the exclusive lock could not be
                immediately obtained. See
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