08.12.2024 19:10, Viktor Dukhovni via Postfix-users wrote:
DO NOT attempt to build database tables, except just-in-time, shortly
before Postfix is ready to be started. Otherwise, you cannot know the
desired value of various supporting parameters, that may depend on the
system environment:
- default_database_type
- alias_database
- ...
In other words, run "newaliases" in the start script, not at package
build time. If you're upgrading a "live" system, you may be able to in
some cases just rebuild the alias table (perhaps atomically) and leave
Postfix running, if the file format is somehow known stable, but a
restart is generally required, because that's hard to know for some
unknown database type, and whether packages you've installed affect
its on disk layout.
Just to demonstrate what's in debian about the matter, which I basically
just removed a few days ago:
https://salsa.debian.org/postfix-team/postfix-dev/-/commit/60a176aeee7dc0397037bc7980d5f3f265b624fa
-
to have some more or less clean start for further actions.
Especially see runnewaliases function in there.
/mjt
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