various samba ldap questions

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 12:09 +0400, Matthieu Patou wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> After working more closely with LDAP part of samba I am asking some 
> questions
> * is the whole data retrieved from the database before paging ?

Currently, yes. 

> * what is going on when using both paging and sorting, do we get all the 
> data or just the attribute(s) on which the sort is done and then fetch 
> associated data ?

I'm pretty sure we get the lot. 

> * could it be interesting to add some profiling information to know the 
> search requests issued in order to see if current indexes are used or if 
> new indexes are needed

We have a crude way of doing this - tridge places a printf() in ldb
whenever we do an unindexed search.   Certainly it could be made more
useful. 

> * is vlv (virtual list view) used in real life, if so is there a plan to 
> implement it in samba ?

The tool to watch would be MMC.  It seems to use every LDAP trick in the
book.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
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Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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