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Re: ldbm database usage



Juan Carlos Gomez wrote:

>  Will version 5 still be hardwired to Berkley DB or has this
> changed? I think having flexible backend is nicety....
> and it may allow for better performance in some platforms...
> (SGI :-)

The only version of the server which was hardwired
to BerkeleyDB was 1.x.
Versions 3, 4 and 5 all support pluggable back-ends,
allowing different database technology to be used.
Of course practically nobody has actually written and
deployed a backend other than the default "ldbm"/BDB one.