On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:25:05AM +0000, Richard Cooper wrote:
> Based on my debugging it seems that this error is related to me running
> postmap to rebuild the virtual_alias table This is despite the fact that the
> [email protected] address is correctly configured in both the old and new
> virtual_aliases. Here a log of what was happening at the same time as the
> above error:
The original Berkeley DB (version 1.8x) which was available at the time
that "hash" and "btree" table support were added to Postfix was a simple
indexed file format and library. In that version of Berkeley DB there
were no memory mapped page pools, transaction logs, ...
If are using Berkeley DB on a BSD system with version 1.8x, then postmap
is race-free due to the Postfix locking protocol for Berkeley DB files.
Newer much more feature-full versions of Berkeley DB are no longer race-free
with the Postfix locking protocol, and you need to atomically create/rename
a newly built table.
I don't use Berkeley DB for multi-reader tables, I strongly recommend
CDB for that purpose. I only use Berkeley DB for single reader/writer
tables such as TLS session caches, address verification caches, ...
--
Viktor.
P.S. Morgan Stanley is looking for a New York City based, Senior Unix
system/email administrator to architect and sustain our perimeter email
environment. If you are interested, please drop me a note.
