Re: contextCSN and glue'd databases

[Andreas Hasenack <ahasenack@terra.com.br>]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:43:05AM -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote:
> I was reading the appendix A of RFC4533 (about syncrepl and CSN) and the
> definition of contextCSN is as follows:
> 
> "The context CSN is the greatest committed entry CSN that is not greater
> than any outstanding (uncommitted) entry CSNs for all entries in a
> directory context."
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Regarding openldap-2.3.25 and a provider with two glued databases, are
> these two databases included in the "directory context" as mentioned
> above? If they are not, this could perhaps explain some of the problems
> I'm having with syncrepl and glued databases (ITS#4626).
> 
> One of the
> databases is a provider only (with data loaded with slapadd) and the
> other (subordinate) is a consumer AND a provider. The last consumer has
> only one database and is a backup server: replication to this one just
> doesn't work.

For example, it's easy to trigger this kind of error in the provider which has
the two databases glued together:

Entry ou=Global,dc=example,dc=com CSN 20060818140635Z#000000#00#000000
greater than snapshot 20060818135903Z#000000#00#000000

Has anybody else seen this?