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ITS#8771 - Note back-mdb is recommended

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Commit 279594c22f officially marked
slapd-mdb as being the recommended backend for OpenLDAP, superseding
back-hdb.  This man page was missed during that update.
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Quanah Gibson-Mount 2019-04-17 23:49:08 +00:00
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doc/man/man5/slapd.backends.5
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@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ manual pages.
.B bdb
This was the recommended primary backend through OpenLDAP 2.3, but it has
since been superseded by the
.BR hdb
.BR mdb
backend. It takes care to configure it properly.
It uses the transactional database interface of the Oracle Berkeley
DB (BDB) package to store data.
@ -42,7 +42,10 @@ It serves up referrals based upon SRV resource records held in the
Domain Name System.
.TP
.B hdb
This is the recommended primary backend for a normal slapd database.
This was the recommended primary backend through OpenLDAP 2.4.40 but it has
since been superseded by the
.BR mdb
backend. It takes care to configure it properly.
.B hdb
is a variant of the
.B bdb
@ -65,7 +68,7 @@ Its usage should be limited to very simple databases, where performance
is not a requirement. This backend also supports subtree renames.
.TP
.B mdb
This will soon be the recommended primary backend, superseding
This is the recommended primary backend, superseding
.BR hdb .
This backend uses OpenLDAP's own MDB transactional database
library. It is extremely compact and extremely efficient, delivering