Re: commit: ldap/servers/slapd backglue.c proto-slap.h slapcommon.c

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> At 12:28 PM 10/15/2005, Howard Chu wrote:
>   
> > Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> >     
> > > hyc@OpenLDAP.org writes:
> > >  
> > >       
> > > > Log Message:
> > > > ITS#4089 use slapcat -n XX to specify just the superior of a glued tree
> > > >    
> > > >         
> > > It'll be a bit confusing that different ways to select a database gives
> > > different result.  I think a separate option would be better, with the
> > > default being whatever OpenLDAP 2.2 did.
> > >
> > >  
> > >       
> > This conversation sounds vaguely familiar...
> > http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200112/msg00082.html
> > Looks like the original 2.1 implementation did what I just patched today; someone else must have said "that's confusing" and talked me out of it.
> >
> > OK, suppose we add a "-g" option that disables glue completely?
> >     
>
> Personally, I think the slapcat/add should ignore glue in
> general.  They were intended to work on databases.  That is,
> I rather -g be used to "enable glue" when one wanted to
> span multiple databases glued together.
My perspective is the opposite - the point of glue is to allow you to 
treat multiple databases as a single database and mostly forget that 
they are separate. I.e., when an administrator decides to use glue, it 
is abnormal / out of the ordinary to want to operate on only the 
component databases.

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