Re: slapadd: which database to open

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Wednesday, March 04, 2009 3:45 PM -0800 Matthew Backes 
<mbackes@symas.com> wrote:


> > With respect to the "smart" behavior Matthew suggests (loading
> > multiple databases within one execution of slapadd), it looks
> > definitely intriguing, but since it quite departs from the current
> > behavior, I'd protect it behind an explicit switch (e.g. -b "", or -
> > n "detect").
>
> Purely from a UI perspective, -b "" sounds like loading LDIF into the
> rootDSE; a bit confusing perhaps.  Additionally, empty arguments tend to
> cause great confusion between users and their shell.  -n detect sounds
> okay.

I'd also note it seems to forget that some of us root their database at "", 
so that's another reason to avoid using -b "" for this.  It already has a 
use case.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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