BerkeleyDB 6 symbol versioning and associated problems

[Petr Spacek]

On 22.7.2014 17:16, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 22 July 2014 09:05, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 07/22/2014 04:08 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>>
>>> The current plan is to not ship v6 in F21, and there are no agreed plans
>>> to ship it in any future release either.  See https://fedorahosted.org/
>>> fesco/ticket/1291 for the full history of the debate.
>>>
>>
>> Yet Oracle advertises Fedora's use of Berkeley DB in a recent release
>> announcement:
>>
>>
> You are talking past each other. Oracle is talking about v5 in that release
> even if they are saying it in a v6 announcement. v6 is the one that
> Miloslav says isn't being looked at in future releases.

I hope that one day we will get rid of BDB and move to MDB:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1086784

Besides other things it should have significantly better performance...

Petr^2 Spacek

>> “Open source Fedora package maintainer, Lubomir Rintel, says "Berkeley DB
>> has quietly served behind the scenes as the database for the RPM Package
>> Manager.   It has proven itself time and time again as a robust and
>> efficient storage engine.   It stores the meta information of the installed
>> rpms.  Under heavy workloads, BDB proves itself reliable. Countless people
>> that use popular Linux distributions have used BDB through RPM and never
>> knew it.  With this new release,   BDB continues its tradition of being a
>> solid storage engine"”
>>
>> <https://blogs.oracle.com/berkeleydb/entry/berkeley_db_12cr1_12_1>