On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 4:14 PM Viktor Dukhovni via Postfix-users < postfix-users@postfix.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 02, 2023 at 07:03:47PM -0400, Viktor Dukhovni via > Postfix-users wrote: > > > The on-disk file format of Berkeley DB is not standardised across major > > versions. A system upgrade may require rebuilding the aliases ".db" > > file due to an incompatible Berkeley DB driver. > > I should perhaps haved mentioned (and recommended) "cdb", which I > personally instead of Berkeley DB. With "cdb" you get a stable on-disk > format that won't change across system upgrades: > > default_database_type = cdb > indexed = ${default_database_type}:${config_directory}/ > alias_database = ${indexed}aliases > alias_maps = ${indexed}aliases > canonical_maps = ${indexed}canonical > smtp_tls_policy_maps = ${indexed}tls-policy > transport_maps = ${indexed}transport > virtual_alias_maps = ${indexed}valias > virtual_mailbox_maps = ${indexed}vmbox > > Nice, thanks for mentioning this. And yes, I have been bitten by the nature of Berkley DB across major updates in other areas. I will investigate switching over to cbd. Thanks, Patrick
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