Re: ldbm database usage

[dboreham@netscape.com (David Boreham)]

Juan Carlos Gomez wrote:

>
> > *Actually the secondary index files probably
> > will grow unless open-ldap now deletes index keys.
> > The primary index (id2entry) should not grow
> > unbounded.
>
>   I suggested this to be fixed but got some opposition to it
> I will try it though and if it works probably it will become an option in our
> ldbm backend

We just finished fixing all the places where keys need
to be deleted in the Netscape server code. It took a
few releases to find them all.

Once this is done it's possible to speed up some types
of search by removing the filter test.