LDB: schema syntax comparison

[Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer]

Hi Simo,

I simply tried to revert this specific patch and then the following 
exception is raised during provisioning:
> ERROR(ldb): uncaught exception - attribute 'dn': value #0 on 
> '@ATTRIBUTES' provided more than once
And I think this is index-entry related?

Matthias

Simo schrieb:
> On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 16:03 +0200, Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer wrote:
>> Hi Simo & others,
>>
>> I do not remember the exact problem, but I think it would be very
>> tedious to enforce 100%-correct schema validation for index entries as well.
>>
>> And then: does comparison strictly require preliminar validation? My
>> opinion in this case is no, since if something is comparable let us just
>> do the comparison. But okay, this is a little philosophical.
> If index DNs are validated and canonicalized before being written, then
> I guess it really doesn't make much sense re-validating on read given
> the performance penalties. Do we have the guarantee they are properly
> vetted before being written ?
> I ask because the comment in the bug seem to implay we have 'bad'
> provision creating some bad index, and that is certainly not acceptable
> IMO.
>
> Simo.
>
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