Re: back-bdb deadlocks?

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

David Boreham wrote:
> > Their response was "we have degree 2 isolation in 4.3, would you like to 
> > test a prerelease of that?" and of course I said yes. The specific 
> > behavior that my patch changed (re: txn->begin_lsn) is the default 
> > behavior in 4.3 so that in particular was harmless.

> That's cool. You could target DB4.3 for a future openldap release then.
>
> Might get a bit messy maintianing backwards compatibility with
> older libdb versions though...

For various reasons we've steadily bumped up the minimum required BDB 
version as we've gone. In this case, we could still use BDB 4.2, with 
the caveat that db_archive on a running slapd will be useless unless you 
patch the code (and maybe you should update to 4.3 anyway).

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