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Re: syncrepl and aliases

At 01:52 AM 10/30/2004, Howard Chu wrote:
>I'm still working on rewriting the syncprovider as an overlay. Separating the code out of back-bdb/search.c is proving to be difficult. Just as a matter of principle, should the search scope for a syncrepl search dereference aliases?

3.5.2.  derefAliases
  
  This operation does not support alias dereferencing during searching.
  The client SHALL specify neverDerefAliases or derefFindingBaseObj for
  the SearchRequest derefAliases parameter.  The server SHALL treat
  other values (e.g., derefInSearching, derefAlways) as protocol errors.

>I would guess that a consumer trying to replicate a particular subtree doesn't care about entries outside of that subtree. So entries that only enter the scope by virtue of a deref shouldn't really be considered. If that's the case, evaluating which entries to return can be simplified a fair amount.
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