Re: (ITS#9002) Add option to slapcat to honor rtxnsize setting

[michael@stroeder.com]

On 3/29/19 8:58 PM, quanah@openldap.org wrote:
> To work around this, slapcat could be given an option to honor the rtxnsize
> setting in slapd.conf/cn=config.
> [..]
> It should be noted in the man page section for this option that the value of
> such a backup is of dubious quality, since it is no longer an exact "point in
> time" representation of the database but rather a bunch of different "point in
> times" stitched together into a single file.

Even if slapcat now outputs an exact "point in time" representation of
the database this does not say anything about consistency of related
LDAP entries anyway.

But I wonder how rtxnsize is supposed to interop with
LDAP transactions in 2.5.