Re: Move SLAPI in an overlay...

[Luke Howard <lukeh@padl.com>]

>I had some need of the kind with back-sql, and I implemented a specific
>layer that allows to rewrite the DN outside of its string representation
>to comply with SQL odds.  A general interface could be interesting, but I
>fear the impact on performances; it should be totally transparent if not
>required, much like overlays right now.

I think something like bdb_modify_internal() (with an opaque transaction
context) would be the kind of interface we'd want to overlay. I think we
could expose that to SLAPI sensibly, too.

-- Luke

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