ldb sqlite backend

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2025-03-03 at 12:35 +1300, Douglas Bagnall via samba-technical
wrote:
> I quite like the idea of the ldb sqlite backend, even though I don't
> exactly know what the idea is.
> 
> But it is very dormant. The ldbedit man page says we can use
> 
>  ldbedit -H sqlite://filename
> 
> but as far as I can tell this has never actually been true.
> 
> We have been dutifully maintaining it, but it seems to be over
> 15 years since we made any effort to actually improve it.
> 
> Should we perhaps just delete it?
> 
> Maybe this is a dangerous road to start on.

The primary reason it existed was because at the time TDB did not have
transactions, but SQLite did. 

I think it can be removed. 

Andrew Bartlett


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