syncrepl in refreshOnly mode, why nentries=0?

[Warren Howard <warren@madtechsupport.com>]

Dear All,

I have a single provider and a single consumer setup.  The consumer is 
set up to do syncrepl of type=refreshOnly and everything looks to be in 
order i.e. comparing the output of ldapsearch for provider and consumer 
shows that the directories are in sync.

When I look at the logs on the provider I see that at times when there 
is "nothing to do" (the directories are in sync) that nentries=0 in the 
SEARCH RESULT from the syncrepl connection initiated by the consumer.  
Then, for example, when one new entry is on the provider, I see 
nentries=1 in the SEARCH RESULT when the consumer connects.  So for 
syncrepl, nentries represents the difference in entries between the 
provider and the consumer.  But this is not what I expected to find, I 
expected nentries from a syncrepl connection to match nentries from an 
equivalent (i.e. same search parameters) ldapsearch connection.

Is my logic wrong and if so why?

Regards,


Warren.