Further to this, I have created a pull request that I think should behave better. https://github.com/kamailio/kamailio/pull/295 On 24 August 2015 at 10:06, jay binks &lt;jaybinks(a)gmail.com <mailto:jaybinks@gmail.com>> wrote: Hey All, Im just after someone else thoughts on if this is a bug. After reading : http://kamailio.org/docs/modules/3.3.x/modules_k/dialog.html#idp148408 Im lead to understand that setting /modparam("dialog", "db_fetch_rows", 0)/ should instruct the dialog module to write dialogs to the DB, but not bother loading them on startup. This sounds like what I'm after. However ever time I set the value to 0, dialogs are still loaded from the DB. a quick dig in the source takes me to the function select_entire_dialog_table in dlg_db_handler.c this chunk of code does not appear to properly implement " if fetch_num_rows == 0 then do nothing " Im after a couple of things from you guys. a) validation that my understanding of what SHOULD happen is correct b) possibly validating that I'm not crazy, and this is actually a bug :) -- Sincerely Jay -- Sincerely Jay _______________________________________________ SIP Express Router (SER) and Kamailio (OpenSER) - sr-users mailing list sr-users(a)lists.sip-router.org http://lists.sip-router.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sr-users

With that in mind , I have fixed the documentation and reverted my change in https://github.com/kamailio/kamailio/pull/295 I've also added a basic db_skip_load as suggested. ( however is there an easy way to fix the readme, without manually re-numbering everything ? ) On 24 August 2015 at 17:10, Daniel-Constantin Mierla &lt;miconda(a)gmail.com <mailto:miconda@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello, db_fetch_rows is about setting the value of how many rows to be loaded at once. 0 is a special value meaning that this limit is not set and all rows are loaded at once. db_fetch_rows is common parameter for other modules (e.g., usrloc) with same kind of behaviour, so I would not change the behaviour of db_fetch_rows. For what you need, maybe db_mode should get a new value -- this is the parameter that controls the relation with database. However, if the write modes provided by db_mode are something that worth combining with the "no-read" mode, then a new parameter can be added, like db_skip_load. Cheers, Daniel On 24/08/15 02:25, jay binks wrote: -- Daniel-Constantin Mierla http://twitter.com/#!/miconda <http://twitter.com/#%21/miconda> - http://www.linkedin.com/in/miconda Book: SIP Routing With Kamailio - http://www.asipto.com _______________________________________________ SIP Express Router (SER) and Kamailio (OpenSER) - sr-users mailing list sr-users(a)lists.sip-router.org <mailto:sr-users@lists.sip-router.org> http://lists.sip-router.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sr-users -- Sincerely Jay