Hi!

Linux distributions slowly phasing out BerkeleyDB, as
unmaintained/abandoned software.  In particular, for
Debian, the plan is to drop it completely either in
the next or next-to-next stable release - which means
about 2 or 4 years from now.

I very much hope we'll have at least one more release
with BDB, or else transition will be painful (it will
be painful either way, just less so if we don't have
to do it in one go).  But this is not the point.

What I'm wondering is - which alternative to use instead
of BDB?

There's lmdb which can be used here and is quite similar
in functionality.

There's gdbm, which falsely marked as "broken" in postfix
just because it uses one file instead of two in old dbm,
but it is also quite old (but supported still).

Ideally it'd be best to keep hash:/btree: prefix and have
the whole thing working with old format, producing the
new format by postmap/postalias.  But this is hardly
possible, it looks like.

Has this topic been bought up before, any thoughts on this?

Thanks,

/mjt
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