Re: backend requirements for syncrepl

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:

> At 06:12 PM 10/3/2004, Luke Howard wrote:
>  
>
> > > At last resort, as DN are not stable identifiers.  The
> > > underlying DB might offer something you can use in
> > > faking a UUID.
> > >      
> > See uuid_create_from_name() in
> >    
>
> Something like this is certainly an option.  One question
> is whether you want the UUID creation function to be
> reversible or not.  That is, does the backend need to
> reverse the UUID to get the underlying DB id in order
> to support UUID equality assertions?
>  
In the current implementation of back-sql I reverse the UUID into
the table/keyval to implement UUID filtering (equality) (at least,
when numerical keys are used).
If searching by UUID is not a requirement, we can give this up.

p.




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