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Re: (ITS#8281) Syncrepl refresh failure when slapd is restarted midstream

Michael Ströder wrote:
> hyc@symas.com wrote:
>> Michael Ströder wrote:
>>> hyc@symas.com wrote:
>>>> Generating a new contextCSN at startup is of questionable worth. We discussed
>>>> this a bit 'way back in 2004
>>>> http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200408/msg00035.html Perhaps we
>>>> should just not do it;
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>>> if a single-master provider starts up empty and a
>>>> consumer tries to talk to it and both have an empty cookie, the provider
>>>> should just respond "you're up to date".
>>>
>>> Why not return an error to the consumer?
>>
>> Typically if a consumer receives an error it will disconnect and retry later.
>> There's not much point making the consumer reconnect - which may be costly for
>> a TCP session. If it's a refreshAndPersist consumer, it just needs to hang on
>> and wait for some real data to arrive.
>
> Is the cost really that high compared to the rest of the initialization?

I meant "TLS" there.

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