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<title>Postfix CDB Howto</title>
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<h1><img src="postfix-logo.jpg" width="203" height="98" ALT="">Postfix CDB Howto</h1>
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<h2>Introduction</h2>
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<p> CDB (Constant DataBase) is an indexed file format designed by
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Daniel Bernstein. CDB is optimized exclusively for read access
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and guarantees that each record will be read in at most two disk
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accesses. This is achieved by forgoing support for incremental
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updates: no single-record inserts or deletes are supported. CDB
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databases can be modified only by rebuilding them completely from
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scratch, hence the "constant" qualifier in the name. </p>
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<p> Postfix CDB databases are specified as "cdb:<i>name</i>", where
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<i>name</i> specifies the CDB file name without the ".cdb" suffix
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(another suffix, ".tmp", is used temporarily while a CDB file is
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under construction). CDB databases are maintained with the postmap(1)
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or postalias(1) command. The DATABASE_README document has general
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information about Postfix databases. </p>
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<p> CDB support is available with Postfix 2.2 and later releases.
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This document describes how to build Postfix with CDB support. </p>
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<h2>Building Postfix with CDB</h2>
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<p> Postfix is compatible with two CDB implementations: </p>
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<ul>
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<li> <p> The original cdb library from Daniel Bernstein, available
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from http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html, and </p>
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<li> <p> tinycdb (version 0.5 and later) from Michael Tokarev,
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available from http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/tinycdb.html. </p>
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</ul>
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<p> Tinycdb is preferred, since it is a bit faster, has additional
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useful functionality and is much simpler to use. </p>
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<p>To build Postfix after you have installed CDB, use something
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like: </p>
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<blockquote>
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<pre>
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% make tidy
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% CDB=../../../tinycdb-0.5
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% make -f Makefile.init makefiles "CCARGS=-DHAS_CDB -I$CDB" \
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"AUXLIBS=$CDB/libcdb.a"
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% make
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</pre>
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for tinycdb, or alternatively, for the D.J.B. version:<br>
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<pre>
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% make tidy
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% CDB=../../../cdb-0.75
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% make -f Makefile.init makefiles "CCARGS=-DHAS_CDB -I$CDB" \
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"AUXLIBS=$CDB/cdb.a $CDB/alloc.a $CDB/buffer.a $CDB/unix.a $CDB/byte.a"
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% make
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</pre>
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</blockquote>
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<p> After postfix has been built with cdb support, you can use
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"cdb" tables wherever you can use read-only "hash", "btree" or
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"dbm" tables. However, the "<b>postmap -i</b>" (incremental record
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insertion) and "<b>postmap -d</b>" (incremental record deletion)
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command-line options are not available. For the same reason the
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"cdb" map type cannot be used to store the persistent address
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verification cache for the verify(8) service. </p>
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