Re: Multiple Server Controls

["Vishal Jose" <vishal.jose@gmail.com>]

What I meant is DIRSYNC control itself as I'm implementing using the
Microsoft's LDAP API as of now.So as per the information that you have
provided, I'm going ahead with UNLIMITED size (result size).Hope that will
serve my purpose.Thanks :)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Chu" <hyc@symas.com>
To: "M Jose, Vishal" <vishal.jose@gmail.com>
Cc: <openldap-software@openldap.org>
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 2:32 AM
Subject: Re: Multiple Server Controls


> M Jose, Vishal wrote:
>
> >So you are saying without using PAGE controls, get all the results
> >even though they are in thousands(by setting the size limit as ZERO,
> >unlimited).Will that be a proper approach to the problem?
> >
> >
> First of all, Kurt is correct, I was thinking of the LDAPSync control,
> not DirSync. But the same advice applies.
>
> Secondly, yes, just set the sizelimit to zero. Since LDAP runs over a
> stream protocol (TCP) and that protocol does its own flow control, there
> is never any actual need to use the Paging control, the client can
> always control how much of the data it wants to read and at what pace.
> For situations like replication where you want the complete result set
> anyway, the Paging control only serves to make the whole process less
> efficient.
>
> >On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 04:20:48 -0800, Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Those two controls are not compatible with each other, only one of the
> >>two will take effect.
> >>
> >>In general, the Paged Results control is a waste of effort and should
> >>not be used.
> >>
> >>
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