Quanah Gibson-Mount writes:
That's not strictly true; 4.4 and 4.5 have better 64-bit support and we've been recommending them for 64-bit servers. So BDB 4.2 has not been the sole recommended version for OL 2.3.
Huh, I've been using BDB 4.2 on 64-bit servers no problem... And it still performed better than 4.4 or 4.5 on 64-bit.
It sounds to me like it's a bit early to remove support for the possibly-best BerkeleyDB version we have so far. 4.6+OpenLDAP hasn't seen much exposure yet after all. At least, I suggest to delay changes which will be hard to revert if 4.3-like problems do crop up.