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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by PW <su...@megapublic.com> on 2002/10/28 22:04:48 UTC

[users@httpd] Why does Mod_Rewrite still only support NDBM instead of Berkeley DB3?

Greetings all

I just joined the Apache list in order to try to convince the Apache
folks to please, please add in Berkeley DB2 or DB3 support for
Mod_Rewrite. DBM support by Mod_Rewrite (and Mod_Auth by the way) only
exists for NDBM (emulated by GDBM on Linux). However, NDBM is outdated,
slow, poses restrictive limits, has caused many hassles for
Apache/Mod_Rewrite installations (search Google Groups!) and so on. It
is also a pain to use via Perl in a Mod_Perl environment.

On the other hand, there is SleepyCat's Berkeley DBM DB3 (aka DBM1,
DBM2) - very fast, no size limits - can grow to gigabytes, built-in
database locking, comes with any Unix/Linux distribution as default
installation (it's used by Sendmail, Perl, etc.).

So why are the Apache developers so attached to NDBM? Please give us a
choice! Please! Thanks!

Best regards

Philippe Wiede
www.megapublic.com

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Re: [users@httpd] Why does Mod_Rewrite still only support NDBM instead of Berkeley DB3?

Posted by Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>.
PW wrote:

> So why are the Apache developers so attached to NDBM? Please give us a
> choice! Please! Thanks!


Ugrade to Apache 2 where dbm support has been standardized (using APR) 
so that sdbm/ndbm/db are available in many more places (including 
mod_rewrite).

Joshua.


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