It never fails (bsddb retirement in 2.3)

[Nick Vargish]

eichin at metacarta.com writes:

> Oddly enough, the solution we (at Cygnus, not MIT, back in the
> "KerbNet" days) took was to switch from HASH mode to BTREE
> mode... because BTREE tested out to be much more reliable *and*
> significantly faster, for the particular load a krb5 kdc database was
> likely to present (not a "normal" one, we were actually testing with
> over a million "usernames".) 

This is very interesting. Thanks for the information... I had been
using bsddb.btopen() to create the databases; maybe I should just
continue to do that.

Nick

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