On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 01:15:46PM +0100, Mike Grice wrote:
> On 27 Aug 2006, at 11:25, Radim Kolar wrote:
>
> > Are there any plans to implement write support for .db (Berkeley
> > db) files?
> > Exim can read them, but not write.
> >
> > It would be very useful because SQL access is much slower than
> > simple hash-file
> > and SQL connections have not fast start up.
>
> You'd be surprised.
[ snip various reasonable points ]
Two further comments: if you want to do this then you can
already use perl's support for dbm files to do it; and if
you do, you should probably investigate something like TDB
where simply holding a read/write handle on the database
file won't block all other readers (modern Berkeley DB
would also do, I think).
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