Re: slapo-unique man page misleading (ITS#5908)

[ghenry@suretecsystems.com]

Ok, but we should mention this somewhere like in the admin guide perhaps. 

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From: Quanah Gibson-Mount
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To: Gavin Henry
To: openldap-its@openldap.org
Subject: Re: slapo-unique man page misleading (ITS#5908)
Sent: 30 Jan 2009 19:13

--On Friday, January 30, 2009 7:08 PM +0000 Gavin Henry 
<ghenry@suretecsystems.com> wrote:

> Ok, so this should be in the man page. Where else should this be listed
> that affects other overlays?

Eh, I'm not sure it should be in the man page.  The point is, if you ever 
want guaranteed atomic writes, you have to use slapo-accesslog to serialize 
them.  That's an issue that affects other LDAP servers as well.

AS Pierangelo said:


There is no guarantee of DSA-wide or even database-wide atomicity in write 
operations, including internal ones.  This was never even intended to be in 
place.  This is a known design limitation not only of slapo-unique, but 
also of slapd (and, I'd say, of LDAP itself).

--Quanah

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