Re: Very difficult search for gidNumber and others (ITS#3195)

[ando@sys-net.it]

> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 04:30:12PM +0200, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
>> The software works as expected, this is not a bug.  If you need
>> substring
>> match, use attribute types with substring match, or define your own.
>
> Thanks for the explanation. I've taken this issue to the RFC2307 author.
>
> If I happen to change my schema and use another definition, one that would
> allow at least for ">=" type comparisons, would openldap support it in
> versions 2.1.x?
> If not, in what version?

OpenLDAP supports ordering and subtrings match for a variety of syntaxes;
essentially for IA5 and Directory strings in all versions; for numeric
strings and integers ordering is supported in 2.2; I think 2.1 supports
integer ordering.

p.

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