New db Backend available for Openldap!

[Juan Carlos Gomez <gomez@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com>]

Hello to all,

A new database ldbm backend (mdbm) is available in our development
distribution (-devel). Please feel free to test it if you have the
memory
mapped dbm library available in your system (libmdbm).

I have tested this on IRIX and it performs much better than gdbm in such

systems.

HOW TO CONFIGURE THIS BACKEND:

(using csh)

setenv LDFLAGS "-Lpath_to_libmdbm(usually /usr/lib/)"
setenv CPPFLAGS "-Ipath_to_mdbm.h(usually /usr/include)"

./configure --with-ldbm-api=mdbm

and build your software!

*REMEBER TO BACKUP DB FILES TO LDIF FORMAT BEFORE
 YOU CONVERT IF DATA IS IMPORTANT.*


Regards, Juan