RE: Proxycache Documentation

["Voglmaier, Reinhard Erich" <rv33100@gsk.com>]

Howard,

Should it be fixed just in the release 2.2.7 ?
I ask coz I have the same problem with the new release.
Should I make a bug report ?

Cheers
Reinhard


-----Original Message-----
From: Howard Chu [mailto:hyc@highlandsun.com] 
Sent: venerdì 19 marzo 2004 9.35
To: Voglmaier, Reinhard Erich; ando@sys-net.it
Cc: openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: RE: Proxycache Documentation


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Voglmaier, Reinhard Erich [mailto:rv33100@gsk.com]

> I'm not quite sure what I should do, kinda it's a bug or a feature ?
>
> For example, the doc does not speak about query containment. ( 
> actually the paper the docs points to does, however the syntax it's 
> using is different
> from the actual used one )
>
> If I cash a query that has brings back "sn, cn, telephoneNumber, mail"
> and make a new query asking only for "sn, cn"   ( other stuff
> remains the
> same, obviously )
> Should this be answered from the cache or not ?
> Query containment should mean it comes from the cache, actually it's 
> not answerable ( info from the log file ).
> Is this a bug, or is this ok ?

This is a bug. Having taken a look at the code, I see that the logic is
reversed. This should be simple to fix...

> These are the things I miss in the admin guide.
> Again, I would volunteer to contribute to the documentation . . .
>
> Reinhard
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard Chu [mailto:hyc@highlandsun.com]

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org 
> > [mailto:owner-openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Pierangelo 
> > Masarati
>
> > > I posted a suggestion about the "proxy cache" chapter in
> the issue
> > > tracking system some time ago. In the meantime I played
> around with
> > > the overlay cache. I
> > found out that
> > > documentation is not very aligned with what the sw is
> > actually doing.
> > > Therefore I would propose to review the chapter in order
> to align it
> > > more to the actual release.
>
> At this point any difference betwen the code and the doc must be a bug 
> in the code, because the doc looks right to me... Please point out the
> inconsistencies in an ITS report.
>

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