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I am running slapd built from HEAD on June 30th 2011, with back-sql

Can you confirm this issue with another backend, e.g. back-bdb? Bugs specific to back-sql or to interaction with it could receive only marginal attention.

p.

I've imported my data into a server with a bdb backend, and I see the same problem.

Looking at the code in sssvlv.c, it uses tavl_find3() to search the values, but the code in tavl_find3() looks to me that it only works properly with an exact match type of matching rule:

Avlnode * tavl_find3( Avlnode *root, const void *data, AVL_CMP fcmp, int *ret ) {     int    cmp = -1, dir;     Avlnode *prev = root;

while ( root != 0 && (cmp = (*fcmp)( data, root->avl_data )) != 0 ) {         prev = root;         dir = cmp > 0;         root = avl_child( root, dir );     }     *ret = cmp;     return root ? root : prev; }

since the while loop terminates when the fcmp function returns 0 (i.e. exact match).

Chris