LDB: schema syntax comparison

Simo simo at samba.org
Sun Sep 8 17:24:25 CEST 2013


On Sat, 2013-09-07 at 13:36 +0200, Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer wrote:
> 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?

Not necessarily, in any case it is a bug that needs to be addressed
properly.

Simo.

> 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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