Re: hdb/accesslog and checkpoint

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Francis Swasey wrote:
> I have never used the hdb backend before, but the example I used to 
> set up the accesslog overlay for delta-syncrepl used it, so I set it 
> up. However, I added the checkpoint control in the database 
> configuration of the slapd.conf file.  I now see that I have 15 log 
> files in the cn=accesslog database and db_archive -a tells me that 
> there are none that can be removed.
>
> Does the accesslog overlay deal with the log files automatically and 
> clean them up (I don't have seven days worth of testing yet) or is 
> this a problem with back_hdb not doing checkpoints (I remember that 
> back_bdb had an ITS filed against it for checkpoints not working a 
> year or so ago)

Any bugs fixed in back-bdb are simultaneously fixed in back-hdb since 
they share 90% of their code. There's no checkpointing bug here.

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