Re: BerkeleyDB versions

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On August 15, 2007 8:44:41 PM +0300 Kari Mattsson <kari@trivore.com> 
> wrote:
>
>
> > Chaps,
> >
> > Am I the only one noticing this:
> >
> > The recommended/optimal Berkeley DB 4.2.52 for OpenLDAP 2.3.x might not
> > even be supported with the next major release 2.4.x.

> Right.  The point is, that 4.6 makes an incompatible change with 4.2.52. 
> On the upside, we've only stayed with recommending 4.2 because neither 4.4 
> or 4.5 did better.

That's not strictly true; 4.4 and 4.5 have better 64-bit support and we've been 
recommending them for 64-bit servers. So BDB 4.2 has not been the sole 
recommended version for OL 2.3.

> 4.6 does do better.  I've already discussed with Howard 
> that once the changes for 4.6 are in HEAD, I'll do further benchmarking to 
> compare HEAD w/4.2 support and HEAD w/ 4.6 support to verify that 4.6 
> continues to give the better performance.
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