On Thu, Dec 25, 2025 at 10:04:38AM -0500, Wietse Venema via Postfix-users wrote:
> Viktor Dukhovni via Postfix-users:
> > > They dropped libdb for RHEL 10, and at least intended to change the
> > > default to lmdb:
> > >
> > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/postfix/c/6a2621e4d73d59337dc64ba45922132286b841a1
> > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/postfix/c/7235852485bb4452cd2f909d5ff9cbb6c451e08f
> >
> > That would have been the right time to change those two defaults.
> > Perhaps Postfix should have a visible "default_cache_type" parameter
> > (in addition to "default_database_type") so that a user or package
> > maintainer can set:
>
> I like that suggestion.
All that remains is bikeshedding the name, perhaps
"default_cache_database_type" would be more clear (at the cost of making
an already long parameter name longer). Some might be tempted to deduce
what the parameter does solely from its name, and not its documentation.
--
Viktor. 🇺🇦 Слава Україні!
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