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Re: ITS#7473 back-mdb search



Howard Chu wrote:
> Emmanuel LÃcharny wrote:
>> Le 1/11/13 7:48 PM, Michael StrÃder a Ãcrit :
>>> Howard Chu wrote:
>>>> We could alter the dn2id index format, and maintain a numSubordinates counter
>>>> there.
>>> Would this make it easier to implement this?
>>>
>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-boreham-numsubordinates-01
>>
>> Implementing this RFC is just a side effect of having stored the number
>> of subordinates stored in the dn2id index (or somehwere else).
>>
>> So adding the operational attribute in each returned entry is pretty
>> straight forward as soon as you have the value at hand.
> 
> In fact, since numSubordinates only reports the number of immediate (i.e.
> onelevel) children, it could be implemented already. Back-mdb always has the
> exact count of onelevel children for any entry. (back-hdb could also, but I
> think this counting operation is slow in BerkeleyDB.)

Would be nice to have that feature even when limited to back-mdb.

Ciao, Michael.

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