RE: MDB name

2011-11-15 Thread Maucci, Cyrille
IMDB ? Quite standard to mean in-memory DB ++Cyrille -Original Message- From: openldap-devel-boun...@openldap.org [mailto:openldap-devel-boun...@openldap.org] On Behalf Of Howard Chu Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 11:18 AM To: OpenLDAP-devel@openldap.org Subject: MDB name What's in a

Re: MDB name

2011-11-13 Thread Hallvard B Furuseth
Quick answer: Don't know. Longer: It'd be nice to do if that would avoid most nameclashes, but as Michael says, db will clash. E.g. I thought of sdb (single-level store) or odb (Openldap's DB). But they clash with OpenOffice databases which is perhaps worse than with Microsoft stuff. .mmdb (M

Re: MDB name

2011-11-13 Thread Michael Ströder
Howard Chu wrote: > I'm not sure that we need to change the name; I was asking the question. As said: Personally I don't think that a name change is needed. In your presentation you said you want to provide a stand-alone lib e.g. for SASL etc. So it's rather a question on how to name the lib to a

Re: MDB name

2011-11-13 Thread Howard Chu
Michael Ströder wrote: Howard Chu wrote: What's in a name... Apparently "MDB" is already a well-known suffix for Microsoft Access database files. "mdb" is also the name of a debugger tool in Solaris. To avoid confusion with those unrelated items, it might be a good idea to rename our MDB to some

Re: MDB name

2011-11-13 Thread Michael Ströder
Howard Chu wrote: > What's in a name... Apparently "MDB" is already a well-known suffix for > Microsoft Access database files. "mdb" is also the name of a debugger tool in > Solaris. To avoid confusion with those unrelated items, it might be a good > idea to rename our MDB to something else. Now, b

Re: MDB name

2011-11-13 Thread Howard Chu
Maucci, Cyrille wrote: IMDB ? Quite standard to mean in-memory DB That would be a misnomer in this case. OpenLDAP MDB is not an in-memory DB. In-memory DBs *only* use RAM in their normal operation, and an auxiliary procedure is used to make backups, replicas, or whatever other mechanism is