Re: [RFC] OpenLDAP automatic upgrade
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> The patches for BDB 4.2.52 are freely available from Sleepycat. They are
> required to be in place if you want a stable BDB 4.2.52 distribution. I
> would be very surprised if the package maintainer hadn't already included
> the patches in their build. I also post links to the patches from my
Yes, they are included. In fact, I would expect Debian BDB 4.2 to be much
more stable than whatever is available from Sleepycat, as a rule of thumb.
The dire days of BDB 4.2 royally screwing over your database in any non-joke
box are gone, fortunately. As for BDB 4.3, I have no idea.
> As for BDB 4.3:
> You cannot use BDB 4.3 to load databases past a few million entries into
> OpenLDAP. The way BDB handles logs changed enormously between BDB 4.2 and
> BDB 4.3, and its log management is not stable, often running out of
> space. In addition, numerous users have written the OpenLDAP list
> complaining of issues they've hit using BDB 4.3 with OpenLDAP 2.2. The
> solution was for them to move back to BDB 4.2.52+patches. This became
I would expect that to cause trouble with just about everything that uses
huge indexes and databases with BDB 4.3. Or does it show up only in
OpenLDAP usage patterns (OpenLDAP is known to find all lurking bugs in BDB
that others never hit :-) ).
> In short, I cannot find a single reason to run OpenLDAP against BDB 4.3,
> and even the current OpenLDAP release notes that BDB 4.2 is required. I
> can find many reasons to not use BDB 4.3.
Not good. That might mean a lot of trouble to get 4.3 out of sarge, and
revert all packages back to 4.2 :(
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