RE: objectclass index

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 02:45 AM 2001-12-17, Howard Chu wrote:
>Considering that Kurt wrote the internet draft that defines how referrals
>are handled, I guess I'll have to go with Kurt's understanding of such.

I'm actually the editor of the I-D which is based in large
part on prior I-Ds by other authors (see Acknowledgements).

>The case I was thinking of that actually applies is when the user filter
>specifies "objectclass=*" (objectclass present) in which case the hardcoded
>test for objectclass=referral is unnecessary.

There are a number of optimizations which are possible in
filter evaluation.  These should be discussed on the -devel
list.

Kurt