[spambayes-dev] Default storage backend

[Tony Meyer]

[Switching to spambayes-dev to try and catch the attention of the  
right people]

[Tony]
>> I wonder if we ought to switch to defaulting to ZODB for 1.1a2;
>> I've been using it for over a year without any database problems

[Richie]
> +1 provided there aren't multi-process issues - as I understand it,  
> ZODB
> (without ZEO) isn't multi-process safe.  Which means it should be  
> fine for
> the POP3 proxy and (I assume?) the Outlook add-in, but maybe not  
> for the
> Unix side of things?

Good question.  ZODB will fail to open the database if another  
process already has it open.

Do those people using SpamBayes in the *nix world have two SpamBayes  
processes running at the same time?  I presume two reading processes  
would work fine with bsddb.

=Tony.Meyer