At 02:56 PM 4/12/2004, Armbrust, Daniel C. wrote: >I just ran into an odd occurrence - is there any reason that a search for (attributeName=*abc*) should fail to use an index, while (attributeName=*abcd*) will use the index? > >It looks like if I do a search for 3 or less characters, it fails to use the index. Because the index key length is defined (in slap.h) to be 4 characters. Kurt