Upgrading to use Berkeley V4 databases?

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <qu...@zimbra.com>]

We've noticed that SpamAssassin still uses the rather inefficient V1 BDB 
databases for Bayes via DB_File.  Is there any move to re-work this to use 
the more efficient V4 database types, or is all BDB support essentially 
dead-ended (i.e., is only the mysql backend bits going to be further 
developed)?

Thanks,
Quanah

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Re: Upgrading to use Berkeley V4 databases?

[Theo Van Dinter <fe...@apache.org>]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:38:50PM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> We've noticed that SpamAssassin still uses the rather inefficient V1 BDB 
> databases for Bayes via DB_File.  Is there any move to re-work this to use 
> the more efficient V4 database types, or is all BDB support essentially 
> dead-ended (i.e., is only the mysql backend bits going to be further 
> developed)?

http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4416

Which IMO means a new BayesStore module using BerkeleyDB instead of DB_File,
since we'd want to keep the current DBM one.

I don't know of anyone who's worked on this so far, but as usual, patches welcome. :)


it would also help with things like:
http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=3563

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