Hello Kern,
2018-04-26 16:14 GMT+02:00 Kern Sibbald <k...@sibbald.com>:
> The dbdriver never worked satisfactorily and has long been depreciated
> because the author admitted that it did not function as he had hoped. I
> think the code has been removed in version 9.0.x
>
The libdbi driver, yes it is absent. The dbdriver config parameter is still
present in the code and I suppose it is not used. I can remove it, as it
confuses users, or do something with it, if you wish.
best regards
> Best regards,
>
> Kern
>
> On 04/26/2018 01:40 PM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote:
>
> Hello Developers,
>
> I found a following issue reported at bugs.bacula.org: "0002340: Bacula
> doesn't set db_driver by default when you compile" and I have some
> questions about it. What I can find in Bacula documentation about a
> dbdriver parameter is:
>
> * Catalog { Name = MyCatalog dbdriver = dbi:mysql; dbaddress =
> 127.0.0.1; dbport = 3306 dbname = regress; user = regress; password = ""
> } *
> *The parameter dbdriver indicates that we will use the driver dbi with a
> mysql database. Currently the drivers supported by Bacula are:
> postgresql, and mysql; these are the names that may be added to string
> ”dbi:”.*
>
> So, as I understand the dbdriver is a parameter used by a DBI to select
> what database backend it should use. I think that current Bacula (9.x) does
> not support a libdbi anymore, so I think that a documentation and a Bacula
> code itself should be updated in this case, or I miss a different purpose
> of this parameter?
>
> I checked it and the current Bacula code just ignore the dbdriver
> parameter completely and I can set it to any value I like. Sure the value
> set in config file will be displayed in show catalog command mentioned in
> the above ticket.
>
> best regards
> --
> Radosław Korzeniewski
> rados...@korzeniewski.net
>
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