RE: Linking against a specific Berkeley DB install

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

--On Friday, December 02, 2005 2:48 PM -0500 Bowie Bailey 
<Bowie_Bailey@BUC.com> wrote:

> From: Quanah Gibson-Mount [mailto:quanah@symas.com]
> > Aside from the other responses, I will note that BDB 4.4 is
> > extremely new, and not highly tested with OpenLDAP yet (I've done
> > some minimal testing).  Early indicators were slower writes times
> > compared to 4.2 or 4.3, but potentially faster read times.  I
> > continue to evaluate it in a testing environment.
>
> Actually, I was looking for a comparison of 4.2 vs 4.3.
>
> I guess the real question is this:
>
> The base OS install comes with db4-4.2.52-7.  Is this good, or are
> there any benefits to going with 4.3 instead?

BDB 4.2.52 + sleepycat patches remains the recommended BDB release to use 
with OpenLDAP as far as I know.  People report varying degrees of success 
with BDB 4.3.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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