ize: %s\n",
            db_strerror(ret));
        goto err;
     }

    /* 
     * Set the normal flags for a transactional subsystem. Note that
     * we DO NOT specify DB_RECOVER. Also, remember that the logging 
     * subsystem is automatically enabled when we initialize the
     * transactional subsystem, so we do not explicitly enable
     * logging here.
     */
    env_flags = DB_CREATE     |  /* If the environment does not
                                  * exist, create it. */
                DB