I've just committed the back-bdb entry caching support submitted in ITS#1545, with some minor tweaks. The code passes the test suite with no trouble, but I haven't tried anything more strenuous on it yet. Please test! -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support