New submission from Tim Lyons <guy.lin...@gmail.com>: A database created under python 2.5 cannot be opened under python 2.6. It gives the error message "DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery -- process-private: unable to find environment ", and a database created under python 2.6 cannot be opened under python 2.5 (see http://trac.macports.org/ticket/24310). (This in in Mac OS X: In Windows XP SP3, Python 2.6 can read a Python 2.5 bsddb data base. but not the other way around. If you try, you will end up with a corrupt data base.)
python 2.6 bsddb is very much slower than python 2.5. Specifically, in Gramps, import of a 500 person xml file takes 12 sec with python25 and 9 mins 30 secs with python26. The slowness has been observed in Mac OS X (See http://trac.macports.org/ticket/23768) and in Windows (see http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=3750). I am not sure, but I think that both systems are using the same underlying database module db46, and that the difference may be in the different interface modules: "_bsddb.so" (on Mac OS X) ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 103998 nosy: guy.linton severity: normal status: open title: bsddb databases in python 2.6 are not compatible with python 2.5 and are slow in python 2.6 type: crash versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8504> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
