Re: slow search when out-of-scope entries match (ITS#2897)

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

At 09:15 AM 1/5/2004, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:

>>>But if so, I think
>>>this threshold should be configurable - maybe on a per-index basis,
>>>if there is a good performance reason not to make it too large in
>>>general.
>>
>>Feel free to submit code.
>
>This approach could be useful in many cases (based on a skilled
>administrator's experience) but I'm not sure it is worth the effort.

Yes.  There is a similar patch for user tuning of substring
key lengths (http://www.openldap.org/its/?findid=2661).  It wasn't
committed because it likely would have caused more user problems
then it would have solved.

Kurt