Re: ordered indexing for integers

Howard Chu hyc@symas.com writes:

So far, 2.4 and 2.3 have totally identical database formats. Is it worthwhile to break this compatibility to gain this feature, or better to preserve compatibility and ignore this feature for now? Any thoughts on going ahead with it here in RE24?

I say go for it. It's early in the 2.4 lifecycle, not many people will have upgraded yet, and I expect a lot of people, when upgrading to 2.4, to take advantage of the opportunity to go to a newer version of BerkeleyDB and therefore have to dump and restore their database anyway. (Distributions in particular will want to try to minimize the number of BerkeleyDB libraries they keep around, and if 4.6 works properly, there's a strong motivation to drop 4.2.)