Re: contextCSN with empty suffix

[Christian Kratzer <ck-lists@cksoft.de>]

Hi,

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Howard Chu wrote:

> Christian Kratzer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > we have a customer who runs an openldap installation with an empty suffix 
> > as in
> >
> >     suffix ""
<snipp/>

> There are some situations where this type of config may run into problems, 
> but in most cases it works fine. For the rare problem cases, (e.g., using 
> proxy syncrepl) an option has been introduced in 2.4.20 to allow the 
> contextCSN to be stored in a dedicated subentry instead of in the suffix 
> entry (See ITS#6373). But if you're not using proxy syncrepl, there's nothing 
> to worry about.

thanks for the clarification.  I will leave it up to them to decide if
they want to clean up the otherwise unnessary empty suffix or just leave
it as is.

Greetings
Christian

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