Re: slapo-nops

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Hello
>
> I've written slapo-nops, an overlay that removes idempotent operations
> where attribute values are being replaced by the same values.
>
> This is a workaround to broken client that take the whole entry and
> change all attributes, even the ones that have not changed. Such
> behavior makes logs unreadable, and it badly weight on accesslog
> databases. Hence the overlay to filter the garbage out of modification
> operations.
>
> Is it desirable in servers/slapd/overlays/slapo-nops? In
> contrib/slapd-modules? Nowhere?

It sounds somewhat like the addpartial overlay that's also in contrib. I think 
that one has been unmaintained/obsoleted.

This seems to me to not be a very general-interest item. As such, it may be 
better in contrib, unless other folks express interest in using it and helping 
to maintain it.

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