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Re: Accessing berkely database files



Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>:
>  Is there any program available for linux (preferably packaged for
>  debian), that would allow me to examine the contents of berkely
>  database files? (I think that they are version 3)

Version 3?!?  Perhaps I'm comparing apples and oranges (BDB vs. Btree?)[0],
but bogofilter here uses BDB "Btree, version 8", which
sounds to me like you're researching ancient history.  However, bf
also supplies bogoutil, which can dump (export) its BDB.  bogoutil is:

   ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for
   GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

so perhaps you can learn its secrets from the code.  I see there's
also libberkeleydb-perl if you're perl friendly.

This is on Sarge.


[0] Ah, sorry, digging a bit deeper (/usr/share/doc/bogofilter/README.db)
mentions:

  Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.1.17: (July     31, 2000)
  Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.2.9:  (January  24, 2001)
  Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.3.11: (July     12, 2001)
  Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.0.14: (November 18, 2001)
  Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.1.25: (December 19, 2002)
  Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (December  3, 2003)
  Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.27: (December 22, 2004)

so perhaps not quite as ancient as I thought.


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