core-chain/node/utils.go

// Copyright 2015 The go-ethereum Authors
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package node

import (
	"path/filepath"

	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/ethdb"
)

// openDatabase opens an existing database with the given name from within the
// specified data directory, creating one if none exists. If the data directory
// is empty, an ephemeral memory database is returned.
func openDatabase(dataDir string, name string, cache int) (ethdb.Database, error) {
	if dataDir == "" {
		return ethdb.NewMemDatabase()
	}
	return ethdb.NewLDBDatabase(filepath.Join(dataDir, name), cache)
}