Re: syncrepl entryuuid index

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Dusty Doris wrote:

> I have been testing syncrepl today on some lab machines using openldap
> 2.2.18.  I have found it to work well as soon as I set it up.  However, I
> noticed the following in my logs whenever I added an entry to the master
> server.
>
> > From the slave servers
> slapd[15190]: <= bdb_equality_candidates: (entryUUID) index_param failed
> (18)
>
> I searched the archives and found a similar issue posted before.  I went
> ahead and added eq indexing to the entryUUID field and this stopped the
> error, as suggested in the archives.
>
> Is this something that should be done when using syncrepl?  If so, I
> thought about adding this to the FAQ at
> http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/1117.html
>
> Just wanted to make sure that this is something that you should actually
> do.
>  
Yes, it is definitely beneficial. I have considered adding code in 
OpenLDAP 2.3 that tries to force this by default, but it may just be 
better to document the suggestion.

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