Re: (ITS#4834) DN matching rules should be indexed

[kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

On Feb 8, 2007, at 2:51 AM, hyc@symas.com wrote:

> h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no wrote:
>> Suggestion:  Generalize a bit and support the slapd.conf statement
>>
>>   index attr :matchingRule
>>
>> Can be used with the extended filter (attr:matchingRule:=foo),
>> or with e.g. (attr=foo) when matchingRule is the EQUALITY rule.
>>
> That's a good idea but would require more work to define indexer  
> functions
> for each matching rule before we could do anything further. My  
> reason for
> posting this ITS is that we already have the index available for  
> the DN
> relativeMatch rules, so we should be taking advantage of them.

I note that dn2id is only useful for entryDN matching.  For
matching of arbitrary DN attributes, additional indexing would
be needed.  It may be possible/reasonable to integrate indexing
for this with component matching indexing... which, of course,
needs work.

-- Kurt


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