[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Re: Big problems with stale lockfiles on large list...

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "HP" == Harold Paulson <haroldp at sierraweb.com> writes:

    HP> I'd have to agree with this.  Grabbing any 30 records out of
    HP> 65k is an operation that shouldn't take more than about a
    HP> second on any modern DB.  It also seems like it would skirt
    HP> around the need for some of these complicated locking tricks.

No question about it.  It's a timing issue: I want to move as quickly
as possible towards a 2.1 release which will be the first
internationalized Mailman.  Rewriting (and more importantly, testing,
and writing the migration code!) the underlying db would in my
estimation push development and release back way too far.

-Barry