Re: API: Getting paged results

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Kapil Surlaker wrote:
> I am using the ldap_search_s API to search the LDAP server. If the number of
> matching entries is large, I get a size exceeded error. Is there a way to do
> the search in pages so that I can retrieve few entries at a time, eventually
> retrieving all the entries ?
>   

Using paged results does not have any bearing on the total number of 
entries you can retrieve, it just lets you retrieve the entries more 
slowly. I.e., the sizelimit applies to the entire search, whether you 
get the results one page at a time or not. As such the paged results 
feature is generally a useless waste of resources.

If you really need to retrieve all of the entries, then you need to 
specify a sizelimit of 0 (meaning unlimited) on your search request, and 
make sure that the server is configured to honor such a request from you.

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