On Tuesday 14 August 2007 17:39:20 Howard Chu wrote:
Gavin Henry wrote:
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Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
Howard Chu wrote:
Our early tests with DB 4.6.1 thru 4.6.3 showed impressive performance gains, making it seem worthwhile. But we have no way of knowing how the current 4.6.18 will perform at the moment.
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If support for 4.2 is dropped in the next 2.4 beta, what is the earliest version we think we will support?
We already disallow use of 4.3 due to its instability, so 4.4 would be the minimum.
Also the BDB support guys at Oracle are now saying they'd like 4.2 to be dropped anyway, as it's nearing its 4th birthday, and they don't want to have to deal with it any more. I guess that's reasonable...
Most distros that have db4.2 with all the recommended patches already have a 4.4 or later. On distros that don't ... you'd probably be bundling a version of Berkely DB anyway, it might as well give performance benefits as well
(while trying to finish up db4.6 packages for Mandriva ...)
Regards, Buchan