Schema changes to already existing databases ?

[Rita Starceski <rstarceski@redcreek.com>]

Hi,

We are upgrading our schema,  only additions to the schema, nothing is
deleted, but many elements
have the same name however the OIDs are changing.

When I try to run OpenLDAP with the new schema file.. everything seems to
work.  All of the data that
was there previously still seems to be there now.

Is this possible ?
Should I trust this ?

I was surprised and I thought I would need to create a utility to copy the
data but it does seem to work ok.

I'd appreciate any ideas on this.

thanks,

Rita