Re: (ITS#5048) Suspicious use of 'unchecked' limit syncprov

[hyc@symas.com]

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> hyc@symas.com writes:
>> Wrong. AdminLimitExceeded ONLY means unchecked here. Otherwise it would be
>> SizeLimitExceeded (or TimeLimitExceeded).
>
> Okay.  Took me some digging to see that.  Anyway, the main problem is
> that hitting the unchecked limit does not imply there is an entry which
> even approximately matches the filter.  Not without indexes.
>
I guess that's a fair point, but operating without an entryCSN index would be 
a config mistake anyway. (Note that the unchecked limit only has relevance on 
backends that support indexing in the first place.)

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