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De: "Noel Jones" <[email protected]> 
Para: [email protected] 
Enviadas: Quinta-feira, 7 de Março de 2013 17:01:45 
Assunto: Re: Transport maps in MySQL 

On 3/7/2013 1:37 PM, Alfredo Saldanha wrote: 
>> Hi people, 
>> 
>> Simple question: 
>> 
>> Is safe use mysql to get the transport maps information? if the 
>> connection with database drops ? is there cache? 
>> 
>> BR, 
>> 
>> Junix 
>> 

> The transport table is a critical table used by pretty much every 
>part of postfix (by way of the trivial_rewrite service). If the 
>mysql database is unavailable, no mail will flow. If the lookups 
>are slow, all postfix performance will suffer. 

In case of mysql connection drop, Postfix doesn't use the last transport 
information ? 
And another stuffs that use MySQL, like virtual aliases, users, etc. the 
message will be rejected ? 

>While it is certainly possible to successfully use mysql with 
>transport, it will require some care and feeding -- especially for a 
>high-volume server. 

OK. 

>Transport tables don't usually change frequently, and it's better to 
>keep that information in a local hash: or cdb: table for both 
>performance and availability. If you want to keep everything in 
>mysql, consider creating a process to periodically dump the data to 
>a local hash: or cdb: table. 

Thank you Noel. 

-- Noel Jones 

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