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Re: Concerns with OLC (cn=config) for editing schema, ACLs, and deleting entries



Buchan Milne wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 March 2012 12:53:08 Howard Chu wrote:
> 
>> The purpose of cn=config is to support configuration changes on a server
>> without causing any service outage. Supporting Deletes in cn=config is
>> fundamentally opposed to this goal. E.g., deleting an olcDatabase entry
>> cannot be seen as anything other than a service outage - you were serving
>> a database a second ago, now it's gone.
> 
> On a server serving multiple databases, removing one of the databases is not 
> necessarily a service outage.

I wholeheartly agree.

Even when you only have one database removing an overlay attached to that
database should be possible.

Ciao, Michael.

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