Re: Search filter question

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

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Kurt

At 06:17 PM 1/23/01 +0100, Pierre-Julien Grizel wrote:

>Hi,
>
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>Suppose I've got a schema that looks like this :
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>o=foo
>|
>+-- c=us
>|    |
>|    +-- sn=smith
>|    |
>|    +-- sn=jones
>|
>+-- c=uk
>|    |
>|    +-- sn=wazzup
>|    |
>|    +-- sn=jones
>|
>+-- ...
>
>
>It's not the actual schema I use - but it's only for explanation
>purposes.
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>Suppose I want to list, with ONE filter, someone who's called "jones"
>and lives in uk, and someone who's called "smith" and lives in us. Of
>course, my sn=xxx objects don't support the c type...
>
>How can I do such a query ? I thought
>(|(&(c=uk)(sn=jones))(&(c=us)(sn=smith))) would work, but it doesn't, as
>my sn=xxx objects don't have the c=value.
>
>It's for optimization purposes, so it's necessary for me to do it with
>one single filter. Once again, don't try to tell me this example is
>silly, it IS. But it's far easier to understand that my actual schema.
>
>
>Any clues ?...
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>Many thanks,
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>P.-J.
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>-- 
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