Re: Deleting subtree - server side

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Arunachalam Parthasarathy wrote:

> Thanks for the reply. But, is move subtree operation (implemented in 
> openldap server side) is a combination of delete subtree and add right?
>
> Or is it like changing the references in the dn2id file?

No, if it were like that it would be uniformly available for all databases.

It actually consists in changing the parent/child relationship between 
two entries, exploiting underlying Berkeley DB transactions while 
performing an LDAP atomic operation (rename).  This is possible because 
slapd-hdb does not store the full name of an entry within the entry 
itself, but only parent/child relationships (the "h" stands for 
"hierarchical" and not for "Howard", the author ;), from which the full 
DN is recursively reconstructed.

p.



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