Database fragility

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 10/09/2010, at 17:35, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> I'm hoping to autodetect dammit. Hmm. Maybe I'll do that! What about autodetect and autoconvert... shouldn't be too tricky... just have to see what bdb does. Woohoo bdb. Or bedbugs as my phone's autocomplete calls it...

If the server bailed on startup if there was a mismatch and there was a program/script/whatever which did an automagic upgrade I think that would be safest.

No POLA violations then.

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> "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:
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>> On 10/09/2010, at 16:59, Bron Gondwana wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 04:52:17PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>>>> I recently had some crashes on my home cyrus server and found I had to delete the log files for the DB's by hand :(
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>>>> Does anyone have any recommendations for how I can avoid having to do it? :)
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>>> Yes, use skiplist.
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>> OK I'll do some converting.
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>> Hopefully the defaults will change one day.. 2.4?
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>>> Bron ( or find me a tame BDB expert and we'll figure out what Cyrus is
>>>      doing wrong with its BDB usage )
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>> Never seen such a beast!
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