Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:
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>(3) I can't see how using SQL can be *that* much better, in that it too
>must use some kind of locking feature in order to handle simultaneous
>accesses. Can it really do this in a more efficient way than the
>system's file locking? There also has to be a process switch (as far as
>I know) in order to interact with an SQL database.
I would have thought that putting in the effort to abstract Exim's
hints database layer enough that it could support a SQL backend would at
the same time make it flexible enough to be able to use more advanced
embedded databases more effectively, and probably vice versa too.
Tony.
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