On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com> wrote: > On 07.07.2014 12:48, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com> wrote: >>> On 06.07.2014 23:54, Andreas Stieger wrote:
>>> Berkeley DB databases can always be upgraded from older BDB versions with >>> db_upgrade, if the BDB version on the new server is incompatible with the >>> one on the old server. Nothing else should really matter. >>> >> This is not necessarily reliable. I've encountered at least 4 BDB >> environments that worked as they were, but for which 'db_upgrade' was >> impossible. It even paid serious consulting rates while I backported a >> bunch of CentOS tools to work with an old BDB environment that someone >> had hand built and not written a usable 'export' function for. >> >> I have never found BDB to be stable or reliable enough for production use. > > That's an answer to a different question. :) Clipping some material: no, it's not a different question. BDB databases *cannot* always be upgraded with db_upgrade, I thought I was clear about that.