Re: commit: ldap/servers/slapd/back-bdb config.c

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:

> hyc@OpenLDAP.org writes:
>
> > Update of /repo/OpenLDAP/pkg/ldap/servers/slapd/back-bdb
> >
> > Modified Files:
> > 	config.c  1.36 -> 1.37
> >
> > Log Message:
> > ITS#3178 add "fasttool" option to disable transaction logging in tool mode

> That's great, but I would have thought it should be a command line
> option, not a config option: One wants this option if and only if
> slapd is not running at the same time, right?

Since it is specific to back-bdb/hdb I don't believe it's appropriate to 
make it a command-line option. Also, it is already a documented 
requirement that slapd is not running when slapadd/slapindex are used. 
The nextid counter will be corrupted (if nothing else) if slapadd is run 
while slapd is running, and the IDL caches will be corrupted if 
slapindex is run while slapd is running.

The config option only takes effect in Tool mode, not in Server mode, so 
there's no real need to toggle it on the command-line.
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