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Re: a compare operation question ...

At 06:02 PM 1/18/01 -0800, sanjay jain wrote:
>If the attribute used in the AVA in a compare operation 
>does not have an equality matching rule then is the compare 
>result FALSE (similar to search filter semantics)

A search filter in this case would actually be Undefined.
While search does not return entries where the filter
evaluates to Undefined, compare returns true iff the
assertion is true, false iff false, and an error if the
assertion cannot be evaluated/reported for any reason.

>or is it 
>an error case ? 

It's an error case, specifically inappropriateMatching.

Kurt