Re: (ITS#3604) different behaviour with back-bdb and back-ldbm

[reinhard.sojka@parlinkom.gv.at]

On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 15:50 +0100, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> > The log indicates that the Solaris client is using the PagedResults
> > control, which was added to back-bdb in 2.2 and that's why you only see
> > this behavior on 2.2 back-bdb. Paged Results uses its own set of limits,
> > and they need to be explicitly configured if you want to allow more than
> > the default (1000) entries to be returned. See slapd.conf(5) for more
> > explanation of the limits keyword.
> 
> Good catch.  But paged results limits by default are set to the same value
> of absolute limits, so changing the "pr" limits won't solve the problem. 
> He needs to disable the control at the client's side, or at least raise
> the page size above the number of entries he expectes to receive.  If this
> is not at all possible, a quick'n'dirty hack would be to delete the
> control from those supported by back-bdb.
> 
> This reminds me that we might want to disable some controls, possibly
> based on the client's identity, but this is a matter for -devel.
> 
> p.
> 

hi,

after playing a while with "limits" in the slapd.conf I can second the
above statement. I have never been able to receive more than 1000
entries. 

The Solaris LDAP client has AFAIK no option to configure size or page
sizes. I have re-read ldapclient's man page but haven't found anything
that points in this direction.
If you think the client should support something to control the size
when receiving PagedResults, I can ask Sun. (But my hope is limited).

kind regards,
Reinhard

PS: please note that tomorrow, 24. March 2005, I will be out of office