Re: BDB vs. HDB

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Howard Chu wrote:

> Matthew J. Smith wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 10:05 -0800, Howard Chu wrote:
> >
> > > The issue with db_verify remains in OpenLDAP 2.2 back-hdb on 
> > > Little-Endian
> > > (e.g. Intel x86) hardware. The issue is gone in OpenLDAP 2.3. Since 
> > > the fix
> > > involves an incompatible database format change, it will not be 
> > > backported to 2.2.
> >
> > Thank you for the info.  Does this impact any other db_* tools?  Can I
> > expect proper behavior from db_recover, db_archive, etc?
>
> It also affects db_load; i.e., a database dumped with db_dump will be 
> unusable if reloaded with db_load. None of the other tools are 
> affected, and there is no issue on Sparc or other Big-Endian 
> architectures.

By the way, this byte ordering issue affects both back-bdb and back-hdb, 
and both are fixed in 2.3.

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