> Dear OpenLDAP developers, > > I am a little bit losted on the indexing mechanism for attribute indexing. > > What is the purpose of this indexing? To reduce comparision or matching time on > attribute values? > > Is there any document on this? A paper on the uMich ldbm backend design is available at http://www.openldap.org/pub/umich/xldbm.pdf > Thanks! > > Xingyuan > >