Re: commit: ldap/servers/slapd backglue.c proto-slap.h slapcommon.c

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 12:28 PM 10/15/2005, Howard Chu wrote:
>Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>>hyc@OpenLDAP.org writes:
>>  
>>>Log Message:
>>>ITS#4089 use slapcat -n XX to specify just the superior of a glued tree
>>>    
>>
>>It'll be a bit confusing that different ways to select a database gives
>>different result.  I think a separate option would be better, with the
>>default being whatever OpenLDAP 2.2 did.
>>
>>  
>This conversation sounds vaguely familiar...
>http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200112/msg00082.html
>Looks like the original 2.1 implementation did what I just patched today; someone else must have said "that's confusing" and talked me out of it.
>
>OK, suppose we add a "-g" option that disables glue completely?

Personally, I think the slapcat/add should ignore glue in
general.  They were intended to work on databases.  That is,
I rather -g be used to "enable glue" when one wanted to
span multiple databases glued together.

Kurt