Re: slapindex utility and selective indexing

[Allan Streib <astreib@indiana.edu>]

Also, does slapindex delete any existing indexes that are not in the 
current slapd.conf?  I have not tried it.  It would be nice if your 
idea would work; I've had the same concern myself about how I would add 
indexes to a large production directory.

Allan

On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 01:53 PM, Mcclure, James (James)** 
CTR ** wrote:

> I am trying to determine the most time efficient way possible to add a 
> new index to a sizable database (4Million+ entries).  Re-indexing all 
> existing indices plus the new index is going to be very time > consuming.
>
> Seems that an obvious choice would be not to re-indexing all indices 
> defined in my slapd.conf file, but to selectively choose the index.  I 
> am thinking that if I create a custom slapd.conf with only the index 
> of interest defined, then the slapindex utility using the -f <file> 
> option will attempt to re-index that specific attribute.
>
> Can this approach be performed without compromising the database or 
> current indices?  I want to make sure that there are no dependencies 
> between index files.
>
> james
>
> James McClure
> Lucent Technologies
> mailto: jmcclure@lucent.com