Re: BDB upgrade from 2.3 to 2.4

[Marcin Giedz <giedz@arise.pl>]

Thanks a lot. I will give it a goal.

Regards,
Marcin

Howard Chu pisze:
> Tony Earnshaw wrote:
>> Quanah Gibson-Mount skrev, on 20-02-2008 18:48:
>>> --On February 20, 2008 8:33:38 AM +0100 Marcin Giedz<giedz@arise.pl>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I'm preparing for an upgrade to 2.4 release but I've been looking for
>>>> some documents related to: if it's needed to "dump" and "restore" the
>>>> whole LDAP database (BDB actually) when changing openldap from 2.3 do
>>>> 2.4? or perhaps it is irrelevant whether I use 2.3/2.4 BDB remains the
>>>> same?
>>> You want to slapcat on 2.3, then slapadd on 2.4
>>
>> AFAICR I did nothing other than reindex my 2.3 directory (db_recover
>> shouldn't be necessary) after going through pangs of WTF?
>
> Well, you were lucky. There are never any guarantees that DB formats
> will remain compatible between releases, which is why the supported
> and documented procedure is to use slapcat / slapadd.
>
> It's true though that the DB format in 2.4 is largely the same as in
> 2.3, with the exception of indexing enhancements made in 2.4.7.