RE: schema checking

[<son@wharton.upenn.edu>]

On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Roy Hooper wrote:
> ldif2ldbm does not check schema.  This is probably NOT a bug, but perhaps a
> developer will shed some light.
> 
> As far as I understand it, ldif2ldbm doesn't check schema because the
> ldif2ldbm is generally used to contstruct a *NEW* database from what should
> be valid data, or to import an already existing database from another LDAP
> server.

this is a bad assumption. ldif2ldbm should not assume the data is valid.

> 
> You don't want to have ldif2ldbm check schema, because if it did, it's be
> much slower.

if ldif2ldbm doesn't check schema, how is schema checking being enforced?