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Re: issues with equality matching and slapd death



On 9/27/18 2:45 AM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Thursday, September 27, 2018 3:02 AM +0200 Michael Ströder
> <michael@stroeder.com> wrote:
> 
>> Ah, you're right. But slapd should not have crashed during that
>> operation.
>>
>> @Chris: Could you reproduce all that with a recent OpenLDAP release?
> 
> As I noted, adding an EQUALITY rule to the attribute schema definition
> when it didn't have one prior means that the data for that attribute now
> has to have normalized values stored in the database, regardless of
> whether or not it is indexed.  Schema changes when there is existing
> data can require a database reload for the system to function properly
> afterwards.  Thus the reason an assert() was triggered and slapd exited
> (correctly).

But IMO this completely defeats the availability promise of back-config.

Ciao, Michael.

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