Re: (ITS#5521) Can't change indexing of an attribute within a single modification

[ando@sys-net.it]

rhafer@suse.de wrote:

> The following modification to add an additional index an attribute fails with
> the error messages pasted below:
> 
> --------------------------
> dn: olcDatabase={1}bdb,cn=config
> changetype: modify
> delete: olcdbindex
> olcDbIndex: cn pres,eq
> -
> add: olcdbindex
> olcDbIndex: cn pres,eq,sub
> --------------------------
> 
> modifying entry "olcDatabase={1}bdb,cn=config"
> ldap_modify: Other (e.g., implementation specific) error (80)
>         additional info: <olcDbIndex> handler exited with 1
> 
> As far as I can see it fails because the old indexmask hat not yet been deleted
> from the bdb-struct. The ainfo_insert()-call in
> back-bdb/attr.c(bdb_attr_index_config()) returns with -1.
> 
> Splitting the above modification in two separate operations works around that
> problem.

What about using replace instead?

p.



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