Re: Replica configuration via back-config (AKA ITS#4211)

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> I see another solution, other than adding table-driven configuration to
> back-relay and slapo-rwm: things would be definitely straightforward if
> back-config allowed configurable suffix, so that consumers use
> "cn=replica-config" or whatever different from "cn=config"; then all we'd
> need to do would be to create a "cn=replica-config", or even a
> "cn=replicaX-config" for each replica, on the master, and push its
> contents to the consumer(s).
>   

That may work, but then cascading gets even more tedious. I'll have to 
think about how to sequence events then, since much of the cn=config 
tree is already created before the config database's clause is processed.

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