On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Wakko Warner wrote:
> I was only thinking about the installations that already heavily depend on
> SQL (as my install at work). The idea was to add an option to do this, not
> force everyone to do it.
Of course.
> If people feel so strongly about not doing this thinking it's a bad idea,
> why does exim even support sql at all? Surely having users, aliases, etc
> in sql is a performance hit as well (and according to some people should not
> be done).
Personally, I've never been very happy about it for optimum performance,[*]
but some sites have low load and today's computers are so fast that it
doesn't seem unreasonable for those who are not worried by performance
issues.
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[*] For myself, I'd always go for a two-stage scheme, for instance,
extracting aliases from a database into a "live" cdb file for Exim to
use.
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