From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 10 15:52:51 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA17843 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 15:52:51 -0800 Received: from sivka.carrier.kiev.ua (root@sivka.carrier.kiev.ua [193.125.68.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA17836 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 15:52:46 -0800 Received: from elvisti.kiev.ua (uucp@localhost) by sivka.carrier.kiev.ua (Sendmail 8.who.cares/5) with UUCP id BAA18166 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 01:53:07 +0200 Received: from office.elvisti.kiev.ua (office.elvisti.kiev.ua [193.125.28.33]) by spider2.elvisti.kiev.ua (8.6.12/8.ElVisti) with ESMTP id BAA16857 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 01:50:00 +0200 Received: (from stesin@localhost) by office.elvisti.kiev.ua (8.6.12/8.ElVisti) id BAA26593 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 01:49:58 +0200 From: "Andrew V. Stesin" Message-Id: <199511102349.BAA26593@office.elvisti.kiev.ua> Subject: Shouldn't DB library be updated? To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 01:49:57 +0200 (EET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha5] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 624 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk That's about Berkeley DB library. The one in --stable is 1.74; the one on ftp.cs.berkeley.edu is 1.85, and seems to be fairly stable (or non-maintained?) implementation. The list of changes and bugfixes between 1.74 and 1.85 is sugnificant. I've compiled 1.85 under recent 2.1 SNAP; compiles easy (minor tweaking with includes), regression tests ran smooth, works fine and seems to be faster on heavy-weight Btree operations comparing to 1.74 version. Maybe it worth updating? -- With best regards -- Andrew Stesin. +380 (44) 2760188 +380 (44) 2713457 +380 (44) 2713560 An undocumented feature is a coding error.