Hints on backend development

["S. Banks" <sbanks@lucent.com>]

Hi there,

I'm new to the group and the primary reason I've joined is that I am 
currently looking at the latest (stable) source code (openldap-2.0.27) 
with the view of adding a new backend database extention.  So far I've 
skimmed the backend code and it looks to be quite well structured for this.

However I figured I'm not the first person to do this so I though I'd 
explain my position and if any anyone has any advice or warnings/hints 
about development of a new backend it would be very very helpful.

Basicly I have a existing distriubted system (P2P) which uses a custom 
cleartext protocol to add,modify,delete and fetch infomation about 
telephone subscribers.  Because this system can support anything up to 
50 million subscribers I have writen my own "real-time" database 
functionality which I call Ralphs.

So having had a look it appears I can easily map my database code into a 
backralphs_info structure and then define a bind/unbind but because I 
want this to fit into my P2P distributed architecture could so any 
pointers on referal would be very useful.

Otherwise if you have implemented a backend and remember any sticking 
points please let me know so I can avoid them..

Regards
Simon

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