Wiki, information on database back ends.

[Patrick Goetz]

On 09/14/2010 05:09 PM, Dave McMurtrie wrote:
>
> I added some basic information to the FAQ in the "Questions about
> features" section to attempt to answer your database backends question.
> It doesn't fully answer your question, but it's a start.
>
>


Thanks; that's definitely a start.  Are the names, type, number of cyrus 
db options a compile time or run time (imapd.conf) configuration option? 
  In particular, my existing debian cyrus 2.1.16 install includes no 
mention of anything database related in the imapd.conf file and the set 
of databases only has a minimal intersection with the set that has been 
mentioned by, e.g., Dan White:
   ------------------------------------------------
   www:cyrus# pwd
   /var/lib/cyrus
   www:cyrus# ls
   db        db.backup2    log          msg   quota   tls_sessions.db
   db.backup1  deliver.db    mailboxes.db  proc  socket  user
   ------------------------------------------------


Apparently the debian cyrus packages have been held back by the lack of 
a good system for upgrading existing cyrus installs.  Since this really 
just means updating the db files, this is an impossibility without a 
very clear roadmap describing db files for at least the N versions of 
cyrus that were packaged for debian.  It's fairly clear to me that the 
upgrade script RedHat uses won't work for at least the debian version of 
cyrus I've been using.