Re: alock + ldbm in 2.3.21

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Thursday, April 13, 2006 12:38 AM +0200 Pierangelo Masarati 
<ando@sys-net.it> wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 14:01 -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> > --On Wednesday, April 12, 2006 10:54 PM +0200 Pierangelo Masarati
> > <ando@sys-net.it> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I don't remember the details, but I'm pretty sure there's no binary
> > > compatibility between database files created by OpenLDAP 2.1 and
> > > OpenLDAP 2.3; in general, you shouldn't expect anything like that when
> > > moving across minor versions.  As Quanah already pointed out, migration
> > > from minor to minor should be done via (old)slapcat/(new)slapadd,
> > > which,
> >
> > s/minor to minor/major to major/
>
> AFAIK, in general it is unsafe to assume that 2.1 database files can be
> used by 2.3...  that's what I call "minor".

Ah... I consider releases like 2.1.20 to 2.1.22 to be a very minor 
upgrade... But I guess that is just patchlevel. ;)  2.1 and 2.3 might be 
the "minor" numbers, but they are major upgrades. :P

--Quanah


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