[spambayes-dev] A new and altogether different bsddb breakage

Tim Peters tim.one at comcast.net
Thu Dec 18 10:21:15 EST 2003


[Barry]
> ...
> In all the BDB apps I've written, I always pass the DB_RECOVER flag to
> the open call.  Except for coordinating the above, it's harmless if
> recovery doesn't need to happen.

OTOH, don't you also do some *seemingly* senseless dance (revealed to you by
a SleepyCat guy) involving back-to-back checkpoints so that the next
harmless recovery doesn't take forever not to do any harm <wink>?

That's probably all wrong, but it might jog your memory.




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