Re: retrieve all entries of a search

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Dieter Kluenter wrote:

> Francois Beretti <francois.beretti@enatel.com> writes:
>
>  
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > due to search results limits (in size and operation time), a call to
> > ldap_search_ext_s() won't allways retrieve all the entries matching
> > the search. What is the best way to achieve this goal ?
> > I don't want answers like "log as rootdn" please :-)
In 2.2 you can specify limits based on the identity that's requesting 
the search; these limits include "unlimited".  See "limits" in 
slapd.conf(5).

> > is it possible to do several searches ?
> > I know that paged searches are not yet implemented in OpenLDAP.
> >
> > The only way I found is to make a first search, then build a huge
> > filter excluding the previous results, and do it until there is no
> > more result. Completly stupid :)
> >    
>
> Extended Control paged results is supported by OpenLDAP
> ldapsearch -Epr=<n> 
... since 2.1; there were selected bugs which were fixed in 2.2 at some 
point.

p.



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