Matching rules issue...

[Krishna Sivaramapuram <krishna@everyone.net>]

I see from the openldap mailing list archives that 
facsimileTelephoneNumber, postalAddress, homePostalAddress attributes 
cannot be searched on, due to the schema definition itself.

But since these rules don't affect the data itself, can I change the 
core.schema and cosine.schema so that I can search these fields? I do 
understand that this violates the standard. But if these matching rules 
don't affect the data themselves, I'd like to do this.

I want to change these fields the following way. Since I don't know how 
these fields are modelled I just want to be sure that these won't cause 
any problems to my data...

attributetype ( 2.5.4.16 NAME 'postalAddress'
       DESC 'RFC2256: postal address'
       EQUALITY caseIgnoreMatch
       SUBSTR caseIgnoreSubstringsMatch
       SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.41 )

attributetype ( 2.5.4.23 NAME ( 'facsimileTelephoneNumber' 'fax' )
       DESC 'RFC2256: Facsimile (Fax) Telephone Number'
       EQUALITY telephoneNumberMatch
       SUBSTR telephoneNumberSubstringsMatch
       SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.22 )

attributetype ( 0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.39 NAME 'homePostalAddress'
       DESC 'RFC1274: home postal address'
       EQUALITY caseIgnoreMatch
       SUBSTR caseIgnoreSubstringsMatch
       SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.41 )

Krish