[PATCH] make ldb-tdb multivalued attributes more efficient

[Douglas Bagnall]

Argh, wrong version.

This one has a touch more signing off and squashing.

Douglas

On 14/06/17 16:01, Douglas Bagnall wrote:
> hi,
> 
> These patches improve the efficiency with which we check the
> uniqueness constraints on multivalued attributes. Until now we have
> always used an O(n^2) algorithm; with this we switch to O(n log n)
> when there are more than 10 attributes.
> 
> It turned out this made the most noticeable difference with linked
> attributes where the uniqueness checking is supposed to be handled by
> the repl_meta_data module. This led to a few changes there to help it
> to communicate its findings, thence to tests and miscellaneous changes
> to error codes.
> 
> The first few patches are fixing whitespace and typos, which makes for
> tedious reading. Sorry.
> 
> The patches are sort of looking towards a solution to
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7485 -- that is, to use
> schema-aware comparison functions rather than dumb case-sensitive
> memcmp. The effect of that is the ldb context and a flags variable are
> handed around where they aren't yet needed, with a view to avoiding an
> ABI change.
> 
> Andrew Bartlett has already reviewed these, so don't feel the need to
> review fully unless you are leaning toward a NACK.
> 
> cheers,
> Douglas
> 

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