[Pkg-openldap-devel] RE: LDAP/BDB log purging (fwd)

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Tuesday, March 06, 2007 3:33 AM -0800 Steve Langasek 
<vorlon at debian.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:30:16PM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>> Patch #5: Fix a bug where cache buffer retrieval could race with a
>> checkpoint call, potentially causing database environment recovery to
>> fail.  [#14657]
>
>> I discussed the impact of these two patches with Howard Chu, as I felt
>> #4  wasn't an issue, and he agreed.  However, #5 can be a source of
>> problems  for OpenLDAP, and should be in the Debian BDB 4.2.52 package.
>> It would  probably be good to escalate this for the etch release.
>
> Is there a bug report filed against the Debian db4.2 package about this?

Not that I am aware of, but I've only been following this from the 
openldap-software side.

I'm somewhat puzzled by why these patches aren't already in the debian BDB 
package.  I've had them in my build since at least January 2006.  Sleepycat 
(now Oracle) identified these as things necessary to have their database 
software work right.  People tend to want their databases to work right. 
Anyhow ;)

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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Stanford University
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