Re: BerkeleyDB versions

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On August 15, 2007 11:10:31 AM -0700 Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:

> 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.

Huh, I've been using BDB 4.2 on 64-bit servers no problem... And it still 
performed better than 4.4 or 4.5 on 64-bit.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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