Re: (ITS#9136) mdb index degradation failure

[hyc@symas.com]

grapvar@gmail.com wrote:

> Contrast to bdb, the "range" index records are immortal in the mdb:
> 
>  * they offer many-thousand list of search candidates (in terms of mdb_search())
> for particular attribute value even if all instances of this value are removed
> from the dit.
>  * "range" records survive after slapindex
>  * they even survive after dropping/creating an index itself

Can you show that slapindex -t doesn't remove these index records?
> 
> The only way to get rid of the "range" index records and actualize index is to
> create a new mdb and populate it from the ground up. This has maintainance
> costs.
> 
> 


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