Re: bdb indexing limits

[Gaël Roualland <gael.roualland@oleane.net>]

Howard Chu wrote :
> > - I noticed this limitation is also enforced on the entry children 
> > indexing, which means one you created more than 65536 children for an 
> > entry, you can no longer remove it ("non leaf" is returned), even 
> > after deleting all of its children first. This seems a bit annoying...
>
> If you delete the first or last entry of the range the range will be 
> reduced by one. As such, if you delete entries in order then the range 
> will collapse to zero and allow deletion of the parent.

Indeed. However, if one of the middle entries is removed first, then the 
parent can no longer be removed...

> No. back-bdb has no other mechanism of tracking child entries. back-hdb 
> is superior here since the dn2id index keeps exact counts of the number 
> of children.

Fine. I'm having an issue with back-hdb (see ITS 4254) too, but that's 
another story ;)

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