Re: objectClass index from slapd.conf is not working

[tim stone <timstone10001@googlemail.com>]

>>
>> Hello Howard,
>>
>> but why is the index filled with a lot of false matches?
>>
>> In one of my DN (Container) are 88000 entires. I placed my search
>> there (searchBase). Only the Container itself has the searched
>> objectClass, but all entires in this container will be examined too,
>> because the index returned this all.
>> Should the index for objectClass not  only give back this _one_ (and
>> not 355545) Candidate, because I placed my search there? Do I
>> misunderstood this?
>
> An index is only a hint, it is not definitive. It is generated from a short
> hash of the relevant attribute values. It's always possible to have hash
> collisions, where multiple values hash to the same index.
>

Can I check/recover this, that this problem with the index is a result
of hash collisions?

Thank in advance,  Tim