Shibboleth Developers

[Derek Atkins <>]

"Scott Cantor" 
<>
 writes:

>> I'm wondering if we want to change to SQLite instead of MySQL?
>> Or, perhaps, stop using embedded-mysql?
>
> Speaking as somebody who's installed MySQL itself on Windows, I ain't going
> there (and it probably wouldn't help, MySQL's just unreliable, not exactly
> news). I don't know SQLite.

SQLite (www.sqlite.org) is an OSS embedded SQL server.

> FWIW, the myisamchk utility that comes with MySQL fixed the table (even
> while the shar was running and failing). I don't know if we can redistribute
> it though, I wouldn't think so.

I doubt it; but wouldn't a user who built the mysql cache code already
have myisamchk?  FWIW, we're not distributing the mysql cache in our
rpms anyways.

> I have a corrupted ISAM file now that we can run tests with, so that helps
> check error handling and so forth.

Good to know -- you might want to check that into CVS and we could write
a test case around it.

> -- Scott

-derek

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