Re: Server-Side Sort Overlay ordering problems

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Friday, January 15, 2010 12:06 PM -0500 Edward Capriolo 
<edlinuxguru@gmail.com> wrote:

> Diego,
>
> You and I have the same issue. UID and CN are not in the schema they
> are compiled into LDAP some how, so there is no way to apply an
> ordering rule. I can not find if this is possible, or what is involved
> in making it happen.
>
> As you can see uid is commented in the schema file as is cn
>
> # attributetype ( 0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.1
> #       NAME ( 'uid' 'userid' )
> #       DESC 'RFC1274: user identifier'
> #       EQUALITY caseIgnoreMatch
> #       SUBSTR caseIgnoreSubstringsMatch
> #       SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15{256} )
>
> In the past this was possible, or the attributes had an ordering. I do
> not know when this changed.

You can find these attributes defined in the code in servers/slapd.

However, I will note, the definitions of these attributes are RFC defined. 
They have no ORDERING rule on purpose.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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