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Re: OpenLDAP & bdb transactions

Thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately, the provided solution is not an option
for me. 
I have found this RFC:
 LDAP: Grouping of Related Operations
 <draft-zeilenga-ldap-grouping-06.txt>

and I am wondering if I could use grouped operations
for my application. Actually, the question is: when
performing 2 grouped operations, does OpenLDAP perform
them within a single bdb transaction, or in separate
transactions? 
I am asking that because I figure that Openldap opens
a bdb transaction, for example, when it performs a
ldapadd operation.
Thanks

--- Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:
> Lia Tarta wrote:
> 
> >Hello
> >As I understand, OpenLDAP does not support
> >transactions in its current version. However, the
> bdb
> >backend is said to be transactional. My question
> is,
> >how do I use these transactions for bdb? Is there
> any
> >way of performing a transactional operation that
> makes
> >2 calls (e.g.: to ADD calls) to OpenLDAP?
> >Thanks
> >
> Not directly. back-bdb uses transactions within a
> single operation, to 
> maintain the consistency of all the indices
> associated with a single 
> entry. You still need a higher level control layer
> to enforce 
> transactions across multiple operations. You could
> write an overlay to 
> provide some form of transactional LDAP features, it
> doesn't need to be 
> implemented in the backend itself. Of course, it
> would require a fair 
> amount of effort to provide all of the
> recoverability features that one 
> expects from a transactional system.
> 
> -- 
>   -- Howard Chu
>   Chief Architect, Symas Corp.       Director,
> Highland Sun
>   http://www.symas.com              
> http://highlandsun.com/hyc
>   Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support
> 
> 


		
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