Add bolt.Open().

Per the suggestion of @tv42 and @cespare, this commit adds a package level
function to create and initialize a database at a given path. This is
a common interface for database packages.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bolt.go b/bolt.go
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+++ b/bolt.go
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+package bolt
+
+import (
+	"os"
+)
+
+// Open creates and opens a database at the given path.
+// If the file does not exist then it will be created automatically.
+func Open(path string, mode os.FileMode) (*DB, error) {
+	db := &DB{}
+	if err := db.Open(path, mode); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return db, nil
+}