On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 1:11 AM, thufir <hawat.thu...@gmail.com> wrote: > How do you load the contact list? It's a database? Sqlite3? > > https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/SQLite3+astdb+back-end > > I'm not clear on what this specific database does. If it's not this > specific database which has contact information, which database does? >
Prior to Asterisk 10, Asterisk's internal database was a Berkeley database. For a variety of reasons, in Asterisk 10, we moved to using SQLite. Generally, this change was "under the hood", but people upgrading from Asterisk 1.8 to a later version needed to be aware of it. The database really has two purposes: (1) Asterisk uses it to store information that needs to persist between reloads/restarts. Various modules use it for this purpose automatically. (2) Users can use it to store arbitrary data. This is done using a variety of dialplan applications and functions: * https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+11+Function_DB * https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+11+Function_DB_DELETE * https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+11+Function_DB_EXISTS * https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+11+Function_DB_KEYS * https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+11+Application_DBdeltree Whether or not you store 'contact information' (and that could have a variety of meanings, so I won't interpret it specifically) is up to you. -- Matthew Jordan Digium, Inc. | Engineering Manager 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA Check us out at: http://digium.com & http://asterisk.org -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
