On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> I finally had a chance to look at the ability of
> Berkeley DB to generate secondary indices on the fly.
> 

And --rebuilddb (as currently implemented) is now on death watch.

I know of no reason why an inplace index rebuild from
the existing Packages store, preserving the dbenv to
avoid raciness, is not a better solution than the current
--rebuilddb implementation.

I'll leave the existing --rebuilddb as "opt-in" with a compile time toggle
until, say, Friday 12/11/2009 for comments before
hauling out the trash from rpmdb/rpmdb.c.

73 de Jeff