On Saturday, July 06, 2013 01:52:59 PM Howard Chu wrote: > Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Howard Chu: > >> LMDB doesn't need dirty tricks to look good. (And at only 6KLOCs of > >> source, there's nowhere to hide any tricks anyway.) > > > > Okay, I found a snag: the 511 bytes limit on the key size. Berkeley > > DB's disk format does not impose a limit on key or value size (at > > least for B-trees). For some applications, this will introduce new > > error conditions, and working around this limitation requires > > reworking the database schema. > > True. There's a bit of leeway here, we can raise the key size to ~1/2 the > page size if necessary. But ultimately, we don't support keys that don't > fit in a single page and there are no plans to add such support. If we see > enough apps that can't live with this, we may revisit the situation.
I did go back and look at the plans for mdb integration in Postfix, since it's my MTA of choice. It does seem that there are some barriers to adoption: http://www.postfix.com/LMDB_README.html Are there any plans to address these issues? Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2322910.gezk5TMbzA@scott-latitude-e6320