RE: back-sql using varchar keyvals and ids

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Friday, August 01, 2008 4:05 PM -0500 "Potkanski, Jason" 
<JPotkanski@cciminstitute.com> wrote:

> ----- Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it> wrote:
>
> > You can modify back-sql.h, defining BACKSQL_ARBITRARY_KEY and
> > recompiling, to allow strings to be >used as keys.  Not extensively
> > tested, but should work.
>
> Altered the Fedora SRPM to define BACKSQL_ARBITRARY_KEY, rebuilt the
> RPMs.
>
> Works as expected with either MS SQL Server or MySQL backends. I was able
> to successfully replace ldap_entries with a view and use baseObject in
> slapd.conf
>
> Why isn't this #define on by default? Can this be always on or if not
> moved to a configuration variable in slapd.conf to turn it on?

Can't you just set it in CFLAGS when you compile?

--Quanah



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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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