### DB->key_range

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    #include <db.h>

    int
    DB->key_range(DB *db, DB_TXN *txnid,
        DBT *key, DB_KEY_RANGE *key_range, u_int32_t flags);

### Description: DB->key_range

The DB->key_range method returns an estimate of the proportion of keys that are less than, equal to, and greater than the specified key. The underlying database must be of type Btree.

The DB->key_range method fills in a structure of type DB_KEY_RANGE. The following data fields are available from the DB_KEY_RANGE structure:

double less;
  A value between 0 and 1, the proportion of keys less than the specified key.
double equal;
  A value between 0 and 1, the proportion of keys equal to the specified key.
double greater;
  A value between 0 and 1, the proportion of keys greater than the specified key.

Values are in the range of 0 to 1; for example, if the field less is 0.05, 5% of the keys in the database are less than the key parameter. The value for equal will be zero if there is no matching key, and will be non-zero otherwise.

The DB->key_range method returns a non-zero error value on failure and 0 on success.

### Parameters

key
  The key DBT operated on.
key_range
  The estimates are returned in the key_range parameter, which contains three elements of type double: less, equal, and greater. Values are in the range of 0 to 1; for example, if the field less is 0.05, 5% of the keys in the database are less than the key parameter. The value for equal will be zero if there is no matching key, and will be non-zero otherwise.
txnid
  If the operation is part of an application-specified transaction, the txnid parameter is a transaction handle returned from DB_ENV->txn_begin; if the operation is part of a Berkeley DB Concurrent Data Store group, the txnid parameter is a handle returned from DB_ENV->cdsgroup_begin; otherwise NULL. If no transaction handle is specified, but the operation occurs in a transactional database, the operation will be implicitly transaction protected. The DB->key_range method does not retain the locks it acquires for the life of the transaction, so estimates may not be repeatable.
flags
  The flags parameter is currently unused, and must be set to 0.

### Errors

The DB->key_range method may fail and return one of the following non-zero errors:

DB_LOCK_DEADLOCK
  A transactional database environment operation was selected to resolve a deadlock.
DB_LOCK_NOTGRANTED
  A Berkeley DB Concurrent Data Store database environment configured for lock timeouts was unable to grant a lock in the allowed time.

DB_REP_HANDLE_DEAD
  The database handle has been invalidated because a replication election unrolled a committed transaction.
DB_REP_LOCKOUT
  The operation was blocked by client/master synchronization.

EINVAL
  If the underlying database was not of type Btree; or if an invalid flag value or parameter was specified.

### Class

DB

### See Also

Databases and Related Methods`

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