Re: (ITS#5134) dbconfig vs. DB_CONFIG

[ghenry@suretecsystems.com]

<quote who="Howard Chu">
> ghenry@suretecsystems.com wrote:
>> I would say since dbconfig directives only work on a restart of slapd,
>> and
>> that if a DB_CONFIG is present, the DB_CONFIG should *always* take
>> precedence. If dbconfig changes could make a difference via back-config,
>> which they can't without a restart, then dbconfig stuff should override
>> any DB_CONFIG.
>
> dbconfig behavior via cn=config is fully dynamic, and thus quite different
> from
> slapd.conf. Changes to dbconfig via cn=config take effect immediately and
> will
> completely rewrite the DB_CONFIG file.

Understood, but a restart would still be needed to make the db env honour
DB_CONFIG, right?

Gavin.