BDB corrupt

[Kurt Lidl]

Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On May 12, 2008, at 1:38 AM, Anthony Pankov wrote:
> 
>>
>> Please, can anybody explain what is the problem with BDB (1.86).
>>
>> Is there known caveats of using BDB? Is there some rules which
>> guarantee from curruption or it is fully undesirable to use BDB under
>> high load?
>>
>> It is important for me because of using BDB in my project.
>>
>>
>>> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 01:52:46PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>>>>
>>>> As one of the persons hacking on pkg_install in pkgsrc/NetBSD, I would
>>>> *strongly* advisy you against storing the files only in a bdb file.
>>>> The change of major and complete corruption with bdb185 is high,
>>>> consider pulling the plug in the middle of a long update.
>>
>>> Sunday, May 11, 2008, 5:38:25 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> GC> +1. BDB is quite easy to corrupt...
> 
> BDB isn't ATOMic, like SQL or other DB backends.

You mean ACID probably.  And there are plenty of SQL databases
that aren't ACID either.  (e.g. Mysql 4.x, Mysql 5.x w/o the
right kind of backing store)

-Kurt