Re: 2.4.6 prov/con, delta-syncrepl and auditContext

[Gavin Henry <ghenry@suretecsystems.com>]

Howard Chu wrote:
> Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> > Gavin Henry wrote:
> >
> > > > If this sounds so unreasonable, please suggest (and code) a
> > > > better strategy.  I'm open to everything (including zapping 
> > > > auditContext
> > > > at all, unless anyone out there finds it useful and is actively 
> > > > using it).
> > > Not unreasonable, just *totally* undocumented. It is, IMHO, a major
> > > missing part in the "Changes Since last version" section in the Admin
> > > Guide.
>
> "major" ? Hardly.

Until I realised test43 passed, which it has done for ages ;-)

> > > It's not even in *any* man pages in HEAD.
> > >
> > > So Syncrepl won't work in 2.4 on any consumer, where the provider has
> > > accesslog enabled, i.e. delta-syncrepl.
>
> Obviously that statement is false.

Yeah, but why on my setup has it broken?

> > > Much appreciated for the feedback Ando. Time for me to get writing ;-)
> >
> > Perhaps we should really find a better solution, rather than document a
> > hack.  What surprises me is that this change has been in HEAD (and, I
> > believe, in 2.4) for at least a year, and nobody noticed it.
>
> It went unnoticed because in general, it had zero impact. As Gavin 
> pointed out, test043 still works fine, even without the schema definition.

I know. Confused again.

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