From 525bf1df009e4bff2b967705b6a8473df7ca75d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Howard Chu <hyc@openldap.org> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 01:29:04 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Recommend mdb, deprecate BDB --- doc/man/man5/slapd-bdb.5 | 7 ++++++- doc/man/man5/slapd-mdb.5 | 6 ++---- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd-bdb.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd-bdb.5 index 3b40ce38d2..4f6c8c3a09 100644 --- a/doc/man/man5/slapd-bdb.5 +++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd-bdb.5 @@ -12,7 +12,11 @@ The \fBbdb\fP backend to uses the Oracle Berkeley DB (BDB) package to store data. It makes extensive use of indexing and caching to speed data access. .LP -\fBhdb\fP is the recommended primary database backend. It is a variant of +Note that BDB is deprecated and support will be dropped in future +OpenLDAP releases. Installations should use the \fBmdb\fP +backend instead. +.LP +\fBhdb\fP is a variant of the \fBbdb\fP backend that uses a hierarchical database layout which supports subtree renames. It is both more space-efficient and more execution-efficient than the \fBbdb\fP backend. It is otherwise identical @@ -269,6 +273,7 @@ Berkeley DB configuration file .SH SEE ALSO .BR slapd.conf (5), .BR slapd\-config (5), +.BR slapd\-mdb (5), .BR slapd (8), .BR slapadd (8), .BR slapcat (8), diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd-mdb.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd-mdb.5 index 3bd02a99a1..58ba668f81 100644 --- a/doc/man/man5/slapd-mdb.5 +++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd-mdb.5 @@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ The \fBmdb\fP backend to .BR slapd (8) uses OpenLDAP's Lightning Memory-Mapped DB (LMDB) library to store data. It relies completely on the underlying operating system for memory -management and does no caching of its own. +management and does no caching of its own. It is the recommended +primary database backend. .LP The \fBmdb\fP backend is similar to the \fBhdb\fP backend in that it uses a hierarchical database layout which @@ -178,9 +179,6 @@ The .B mdb backend honors access control semantics as indicated in .BR slapd.access (5). -.SH NOTES -This is an early release; the database file format or other -characteristics may change incompatibly in future releases. .SH FILES .TP .B ETCDIR/slapd.conf -- GitLab