expire and history format

[Russ Allbery]

Heath Kehoe <heath.kehoe at intermec.com> writes:

> I agree that a history API is the way to go, but we should at least make
> Igor's patch available (say, in contrib/) because it's a good idea and
> provides an immediate benefit.  For example, on my server it would
> decrease this size of the history file from 805 MB to 497 MB.

No objections there at all.  Not sure if we want to make it the default
and require another history rebuild, though, until we have the new API.
Igor, if in the short term, you want to make it conditional on a
configuration parameter of some kind, that would work too.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>