On Wednesday 26 March 2008 18:11:15 andylockran wrote:
Howard Chu wrote:
4.2.52 (with documented patches) has never failed for me. 4.3 was known to blow up in many situations. 4.6.21 looks pretty good, there's no reported problems with it. BDB 4.7 is in the works already. On my last test, 4.7.13 SEGV'd in its deadlock detector, so yeah, I guess their release record is kind of spotty. But that's also the nature of newer software; as 4.7 is still early in its release cycle I expect it will improve just as the others did.
Howard Chu wrote:
4.2.52 (with documented patches) has never failed for me.
Apologies for reviving a dead thread - but I've had a couple of occasions this year when I've had to restore the bdb backend using db_recover.
I notice I'm using the version of bdb mentioned on this thread.. but am ignorant to the patches. I installed Buchan Milne's repo in order to get a stable openldap on RHEL4 - but my bdb version is still stuck in 2003.
Well, it (the 4.2 shipped in the packages) does have all said patches.
What is the best advised route to upgrading - is there another repo with bdb in it, or should I compile bdb manually - then link to it later?
My 2.4 packages ship with 4.6.
I could consider updating the 2.3 packages to ship 4.5, but I am personally planning to migrate off 2.3 relatively soon (if possible taking other dependencies in our environment into account).
Regards, Buchan