Re: Problem Alias with bdb database

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Wednesday, November 03, 2004 1:27 PM +0100 Nicolas VAQUIER 
<n.vaquier@ch-rouffach.fr> wrote:

> We are currently looking to change the structure of our directory which
> is actually running with a bdb database.
>
> We want to use "alias" in our new directory, "alias" which are not
> supported by this db.
>
> What do you think about migrate the db to a ldbm? Do we have another
> solution?

I suggest you read the FAQ about backends 
<http://www.openldap.org/faq/index.cgi?_highlightWords=berkeley%20db&file=756>, 
and note that BDB is the preferred backend, and that ldbm is somewhat 
deprecated, doesn't scale as well as BDB, and doesn't have as rich a 
feature set.

--Quanah

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