Two index questions

[Jaap Winius <jwinius@umrk.nl>]

Hi all,

Today I have two questions involving indexing. First, my understanding  
is that if a new index has been added to slapd.conf, it won't be used  
until slapd is stopped, slapindex is run and slapd is started again.  
However, if there aren't any entries yet in the database that carry a  
new attribute to be indexed, then there's actually nothing to index.  
Also, the man page for it states that "Slapindex is used to   
regenerate slapd(8) indices based upon the current contents of a  
database." Could this also be a hint that slapindex does need relevant  
data to process before it can produce any indices? I expect to be  
wrong about this, but I'd rather be sure.

Second, regarding consumers, if a new index is added to a provider,  
does the same index also have to be added and (re)generated with  
slapindex on its consumers before it will be available there as well?  
I would expect so, but again, I'm not completely certain.

Thanks,

Jaap