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Subject: Re: "table has changed -- exiting" in maillog
From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2000 - 08:53:10 CDT

Michael Tokarev:
> Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> >
> []
> > It's not a problem
> > It's perfectly normal -- could it be that you rebuild aliases using a cronjob?
> > That would cause e.g. local to reload the table each time it changed.
>
> Just little thought -- will it be ok for postfix process to _not_ to exit
> if it encountered a table change _and_ it is not run chrooted?
> I.e., in the place where this "table changed" check is performed, is it
> ok to just reopen the map _if_ it is not chrooted? Such a change should
> be trivial, but I want to be shure if this is ok, what other people
> think about this?

What is the problem? If you're updating maps constantly, perhaps
it is better to use a database instead. Updating a map means writing
the whole thing from scratch, which is expensive when you do it
frequently.

        Wiese