[bind10-dev] Blog comment from BDB developer

[Evan Hunt]

> You have no idea how bad that would be from a DB performance point of
> view. You *really* don't want to do this.

For the record, it was a joke. :)

> I've never heard of something like that in Java and I do quite a lot of
> Java programming with databases these days. I doubt that this is true.

The method is called getSearchKeyRange(); it finds either the requested key
or the nearest greater one within a range of values.   From that, you can
get a cursor and step back one, to find the nearest lower value.

Unfortunately, as noted, it only seems to be in the Java version.

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