Re: Substring searches

[Pierangelo Masarati <masarati@aero.polimi.it>]

"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:
> 
> I don't think fine grained controls is not the answer.  Consider:
>         (&(cn=*ab*)(objectClass=person)(name=Bob))
> 
> Why should the search fail just because one component of the
> filter has a large number of candidates?  Even where
> each had large number of candidates, the intersection may
> actually be quite small.  What matters is how many candidates
> the whole filter has and that's what the HEAD code limits.
> 
> Why is more needed?

I agree your example really tricks this feature into an undesired 
behavior. That's why I'm still doubting about its usefulness.

Pierangelo.

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