Re: Very difficult search for gidNumber and others (ITS#3195)

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

At 07:45 AM 6/21/2004, andreas@conectiva.com.br wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 04:30:12PM +0200, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
>> The software works as expected, this is not a bug.  If you need substring
>> match, use attribute types with substring match, or define your own.
>
>Thanks for the explanation. I've taken this issue to the RFC2307 author.
>
>If I happen to change my schema

Note that it is generally viewed as improper to change
existing schema elements, especially elements to which you
do not have specification change control for.  You are
welcomed define new schema elements.

>and use another definition, one that would
>allow at least for ">=" type comparisons, would openldap support it in versions 2.1.x?  If not, in what version?

slapd(8) provides extensible schema support.