Re: ITS#7473 back-mdb search

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Emmanuel LÃcharny wrote:
> Le 1/11/13 7:48 PM, Michael StrÃder a Ãcrit :
> > Howard Chu wrote:
> > > We could alter the dn2id index format, and maintain a numSubordinates counter
> > > there.
> > Would this make it easier to implement this?
> >
> > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-boreham-numsubordinates-01
>
> Implementing this RFC is just a side effect of having stored the number
> of subordinates stored in the dn2id index (or somehwere else).
>
> So adding the operational attribute in each returned entry is pretty
> straight forward as soon as you have the value at hand.

In fact, since numSubordinates only reports the number of immediate (i.e. 
onelevel) children, it could be implemented already. Back-mdb always has the 
exact count of onelevel children for any entry. (back-hdb could also, but I 
think this counting operation is slow in BerkeleyDB.)

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