Re: Berkeley DB, What's the recommended version?

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Gavin Henry wrote:
> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> > --On Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:52 PM -0300 Diego Woitasen
> > <diegows@xtech.com.ar>  wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >   I need to compile the lastest OpenLDAP version and I want to know what's
> > > the recommended version of BDB, if there is any. The latest BDB is
> > > 4.6.21, but I want to hear some experiences.
> > BDB 4.2.52 with all of the appropriate patches has years of stability
> > behind it. Past that, 4.3 was a disaster (so much so that openldap
> > aborts if you try to build against it), and 4.4 and 4.5 seem okay, but
> > I've not used them heavily.  4.6 seems to hold the most promise after
> > 4.2 if you compile it correctly on NTPL systems as there is an annoying
> > problem with it otherwise.

BDB 4.6.21 works well enough; I don't see it doing anything worse than 
previous versions. Sleepycat/Oracle have pretty much declared 4.2 dead. Given 
that 4.3 is unsafe, we probably shouldn't be recommending anything older than 
4.4 any more.

In some ways we don't really have a good answer for this question - as far as 
I know, nobody has spent any extensive amount of time using either 4.4 or 4.5.

> I need to expand on exact versions at
> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/appendix-recommended-versions.html

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