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Re: Open LDAP and PostgreSQL or Interbase

To: war@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: Open LDAP and PostgreSQL or Interbase
From: Dave Carrigan <dave@rudedog.org>
Date: 01 Jun 2000 15:57:31 -0700
Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
In-reply-to: war@vuse.vanderbilt.edu's message of "Thu, 1 Jun 2000 16:33:37 -0500 (CDT)"
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war@vuse.vanderbilt.edu writes:

> Alternatively, does anyone know why we shouldn't be trying to do this?

Most RDBMSes are not optimized for raw, read-only query speed -- which
is what you want in an LDAP server.

In addition, LDAP schemas are not in third-normal form, so representing
LDAP data in a relational database can be difficult.

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