Re: substring index oddity

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

John Madden wrote:
> Good.  More testing shows much better results in light of that info and I can
> probably live with that design.  However, I'm still seeing a bad case:
>
> uid=test2222* : 28 seconds
> # numEntries: 111
> uid=test22222* : 28 seconds
> # numEntries: 11
>   

This is ITS#2588, fixed in OpenLDAP 2.3. The fix is also in the version 
of OpenLDAP 2.2 packaged by Symas in our CDS products. Using 
vendor-supplied software instead of compiling your own is OK, as long as 
you choose the right vendor to supply the packages. ;)
> Bad, even though there are more than 4 chars in the string.  Yet:
>
> uid=test*2222 : 0.007 seconds
> # numEntries: 100
> uid=*est222* : 0.048s
> # numEntries: 1111
>
> Quite good.
>   
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