RE: LDAP query

[Andrew Probert <AndrewP@rotek.com.au>]

Hmm... referential integrity in a directory.

The only one I have seen that does this is OpenDirectory, which has a
flag to turn on alias integrity checking, which is handled internally by
the server.

Otherwise, one is up for handling all integrity issues in the client,
especially since there is no concept of 'stored procedures' in a
directory.  Is this a new standard in the making?

Andew Probert
Rotek Consulting 
a Division of Secure Network Services
+61 3 9690 8877

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Raju Rajan [SMTP:raju@watson.ibm.com]
> Sent:	Friday, November 13, 1998 12:10 AM
> To:	ietf-ldapext@netscape.com
> Cc:	ietf-ldapext@netscape.com
> Subject:	LDAP query
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  I have a quick LDAP related question.
> 
>  In the Policy WG we have a schema where certain objects are
> referenced from other
> objects. The question relates to the deleting of objects, without
> leaving dangling
> references in the directory. The solutions we are considering are (a)
> have a
> ReferenceCount attribute or (b) have a ReferringDNList attribute, to
> keep track of the
> pointers to each object. Is there any way of getting around the
> concurrent write problem?
> That is, is there a way to "test and delete" as an atomic operation?
> Thanks,
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Raju Rajan