On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 08:45:44AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > I'm a bit concerned about user databases breaking on upgrades, but IIUC > the transactional mode needs to be enabled with a DB_INIT_TXN flag [1] > (among other things), and the Perl sources don't use that anywhere. > Therefore, it seems possible that transactions can't be used through > DB_File anyway and we're safe from the incompatibility. This probably > needs further investigation.
I agree with your analysis, and I also note that the perl package went through libdb4.6 and libdb4.7 transitions without any apparent issue. I'll upload your changes to experiemental later on. > [1] http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17076_02/html/gsg_txn/C/enabletxn.html -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
