Re: patches since 2.3.12-p2?

2008-07-21 Thread Ian G Batten
On 19 Jul 08, at 1313, Bron Gondwana wrote: Unfortunately, the cyrus database interface sort of sucks from a consistency perspective, it's dangerous to call any function that needs database access if you have a database transaction open I understand some of the technical, philosophical and

Re: patches since 2.3.12-p2?

2008-07-21 Thread Dave McMurtrie
Ian G Batten wrote: I understand some of the technical, philosophical and historical reasons why this isn't the case, but every now and again I find myself wishing that Cyrus had an SQL backend for the various databases (perhaps not delivery, because losing it isn't the end of the

Re: patches since 2.3.12-p2?

2008-07-21 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:17:14PM +0100, Ian G Batten wrote: On 19 Jul 08, at 1313, Bron Gondwana wrote: Unfortunately, the cyrus database interface sort of sucks from a consistency perspective, it's dangerous to call any function that needs database access if you have a database

Re: patches since 2.3.12-p2?

2008-07-19 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Alain Spineux wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Matter wrote: Hi all, Could some kind soul recommend what patches it makes sense to apply since the latest release? There are a number of them circulating on the list but I cannot figure

Re: patches since 2.3.12-p2?

2008-07-19 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:57:28AM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: and skiplist: unlock while not locked This is almost certainly a bug. I added this along with a bunch of other skiplist changes to find places where the database interface wasn't being used correctly, because it means bugs of

patches since 2.3.12-p2?

2008-07-18 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi all, Could some kind soul recommend what patches it makes sense to apply since the latest release? There are a number of them circulating on the list but I cannot figure out for sure which ones are generally safe and recommended. In particular, anything that addresses DBERROR db4: 176

Re: patches since 2.3.12-p2?

2008-07-18 Thread Simon Matter
Hi all, Could some kind soul recommend what patches it makes sense to apply since the latest release? There are a number of them circulating on the list but I cannot figure out for sure which ones are generally safe and recommended. In particular, anything that addresses DBERROR db4: 176

Re: patches since 2.3.12-p2?

2008-07-18 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Simon Matter wrote: Hi all, Could some kind soul recommend what patches it makes sense to apply since the latest release? There are a number of them circulating on the list but I cannot figure out for sure which ones are generally safe and recommended. In particular, anything that