Re: slapd: attr.c:481: attr_merge: Assertion

[Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>]

Michael StrÃder wrote:
> Upgraded what? slapd? Was there a change in BDB format from 2.4.29 to 
> 2.4.30?

No.

> My question was about the state of the assertion and whether the
> interpretation (and as a consequence the slapcat/slapadd-operation)
> was correct.

Howard says schema change can be one reason.  Always slapcat/slapadd
when tweaking existing schema elements.  In this case if one version
of the attribute got a normaliser and the other did not.

Of course the various standards say existing schemas should never
change, but keeping them frozen is sometimes easier said than done.


I mentioned upgrade because incompatible changes sometimes slip
through, typically in a bugfix where the code doesn't stay backwards
bug-compatible.  So I always slapcat/slapadd when upgrading too,
just in case.

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Hallvard