[pfx] Re: expected behavior of 3.11 *with* bdb and hash/btree support?

Greg Klanderman via Postfix-users:
> 
> 
> >>>>> On April 1, 2026 Greg Klanderman via Postfix-users <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >>>>> On April 1, 2026 Wietse Venema <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Greg Klanderman via Postfix-users:
> >>> Further, it seems there is not even the option to use hash/btree
> >>> when postfix is compiled with bdb in this release.
> 
> >> That is not true. I run postfix with real Berkeley DB. Just don't
> >> build with -DNO_DB on Fedora and FreeBSD.
> 
> > OK, so it's just a Debian packaging issue then?
> 
> > But postfix has been built with BDB support, as postfix -m does
> > include hash and btree.  I assume if it had been built with -DNO_DB
> > that would not be the case, right?
> 
> Hmm, I see my log messages are only warnings:
> 
> | warning: /etc/postfix/discard_ehlo_keywords: hash/btree support is deprecated.  Please switch to cdb or lmdb.

That's added by the Debian maintainer, in an attempt to encourage 
people to convert before Berkeley DB support becomes unavailable.

> and not the error message shown in NON_BERKELEYDB_README:
> 
> | Berkeley DB support for 'hash:/etc/postfix/virtual' is not available

That's when Postfix 3.11 is compiled with -DNO_DB, in an attempt
to get people started with a 'late' conversion when Berkeley DB
support is already no longer available.

	Wietse
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