Re: (ITS#5564) Use largest contextCSN to determine staleness?

[hyc@symas.com]

rein@OpenLDAP.org wrote:
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> On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, rein@OpenLDAP.org wrote:
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> rein@OpenLDAP.org wrote:
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>> A fix that seems to solve this is that syncprov_findbase(FIND_CSN)
>> should search for entries whose entryCSN value is less than the
>> largest contextCSN presented by the client.  All the test scripts
>> succeed if I try this, but I'm not convinced that this is the correct
>> fix.  Would it not be more correct to ignore the entire CSN set
>> presented by the consumer when it has been determined as stale.
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> After looking a bit more on this I'm more convinced that the alternative
> fix is the correct.  A patch that implements this is attached, all tests
> succeed with it.  Howard, can you approve or comment on it?

This patch looks OK to me, go ahead and commit.

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