Re: (temorary) solution for the database index problems ?!?!

[RIPE Database Manager <]

Dear all,

 Curtis Villamizar curtis@localhost writes:
 * 
 * We get much smaller files.  At David Kessen's request I tried this
 * with -p to see if it made any difference.  It doesn't.  It appears the
 * differnce is simply BSD DB vs DBM.
 * 
 * I normally use -cfMV with the code I run.  I cleaned the directory and
 * the added "p" yielding -pcfMV.  The results were:
 * 
 * [curtis@localhost 5]  ls -ltr test
 * total 51856
 * -rw-r-----  1 curtis  staff  22044885 Sep 29 00:27 ripe.db.save
 * -rw-r-----  1 curtis  staff     16384 Sep 29 18:08 ripe.db.save.db
 * -rw-r-----  1 curtis  staff   4448256 Sep 29 18:08 ripe.db.save.cl.db
 * [curtis@localhost 6]  du -s test
 * 51858   test
 * 
 * We are running modified code (some of the flags are not in the RIPE
 * distributed code, but all our code recently went to David).  Anyone
 * can get the same effect relinkink BSD DB and looking for the few
 * places in the .pl files where .pag or .dir is found.

I have received the code from Curtis. Since it looks like that BSD DB is
a fast and more reliable database package I certainly want to support it.
Support for BSD DB will be in the next distribution.

Kind regards,

David Kessens
RIPE NCC Database software maintainer
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