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RE: indexing objectclass: why?

At 04:00 PM 2001-11-29, Christoph Neumann wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Howard Chu wrote:
>> I noticed this in the back-bdb code, didn't realize it was also in
>> back-ldbm. In back-bdb I've optimized this a bit by scanning the user filter
>> in advance, looking for any instances of objectClass in the filter (besides
>> objectClass present). If none are found, the alias and referral filters are
>> omitted. I think this change should probably go into back-ldbm as well.
>> 
>> On a side note, I actually created a presence index for objectClass, which
>> turned out to be a silly thing to do. Creating such huge ID lists makes the
>> objectClass index database very inefficient. The backend probably ought to
>> silently ignore if this appears in a .conf file, and just implicitly return
>> a match on the entire database for this filter.
>
>Currently if schema checking is disabled it is possible to insert entries 
>that do not have objectClasses defined.  Therefore a search on 
>(objectClass=*) will not return all entries.  Hard-coding the presence 
>filter would fix this behavior.

For other reasons, I'm fine with pre-evaluating (objectClass=*)
to True on the front-end.