Re: OpenLDAP 2.1.22 and "deferring operation" error message

[Aleksander Adamowski <aleksander.adamowski.openldap@altkom.pl>]

Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:

> > slapd[12273]: deferring operation because of conn->c_conn_state == SLAP_C_BINDING
> >
> > So it seems that the operations are deferred because the connection is in the process of binding. Any ideas how can this be remedied?
> >    
>
> It's not a problem that needs remedying per say.  That is,
> it's quite normal for the server to defer the operation
> where the client didn't wait for the bind to complete.
> Guess you could change the client so that it waits, but we
> don't (for simple bind) require that.

The client in my case is the Courier MTA (its 2 daemons, actually:
authldap and ldapaliasd).

I've grepped through its source and it only uses synchronous binds
(ldap_simple_bind_s() function).

It calls it  only in 3 places across the whole source code. And it
always does this on new connections - seems there's no connection
sharing between threads/processes.

Am I thinking correctly that those operations should never be deferred
because the synchronous bind always waits for completion?