Re: piece wise retrieval of multivalued attrib.

[Bruce Greenblatt <bgreenblatt@directory-applications.com>]

At 05:54 PM 4/20/2001 -0400, Mark C Smith wrote:

> I think it would be better to spend some time designing the directory
> service and the associated applications to avoid the need to store
> millions of values.

I strongly agree.  This points out a flaw in the schema/DIT structure, and 
not a missing feature of the LDAP protocol.  Also note that if you need to 
check if a user is a member of the mailing list, you can use the Compare 
operation.  You could implement the proposed matched values only control, 
which I believe is a bad thing that only encourages poor schema/DIT 
structure design.  The best thing to do is to restructure the information 
in the DIT.


> --
> Mark Smith
> Directory Product Development / Netscape

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