Re: cleaning up logs from bdb db and upgrading ldap

[Dave Horsfall <daveh@ci.com.au>]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Howard Chu wrote:

> > Only when upgrading between major versions e.g. 2.2.X -> 2.3.X.
> 
> Technically that is the minor version number. I.e., an OpenLDAP release 
> number is major.minor.patch. In the 2.x releases we've had database 
> format changes for each minor release thus far, but probably won't have 
> any format changes in 2.4.
> 
> And actually, the format only changed between 2.2 and 2.3 for 
> little-endian machines like Intel x86. On big-endian machines like 
> Sparc, there was no change. Now we consistently use big-endian byte 
> order everywhere.

Corrections noted; thanks.

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