database copying and compacting

[David Relson]

On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 07:51:55 -0800
Jef Poskanzer wrote:

> Question, is there an option in this version to not use the
> transactional mode?  I don't feel too strongly about it, but if the
> flag is there I'd use it.  I haven't had any database problems since a
> very early version, and if I ever do have one I'll find out about it
> within a week and be able to restore the previous week's db backup
> file.  With the transactional code, it sounds like I won't even be
> able to make a valid backup file without using this special script.

Jef:

At one time, I had a dual use version of bogofilter -- transaction and
non-transaction.  In the interest of source code simplicity, we decided
to release a purely transactional version.  Likely the dual use version
can be resurrected.

David