Michael Ströder wrote: > hyc(a)symas.com wrote: >> Generating a new contextCSN at startup is of questionable worth. We discussed >> this a bit 'way back in 2004 >> http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200408/msg00035.html Perhaps we >> should just not do it; > > +1 > >> if a single-master provider starts up empty and a >> consumer tries to talk to it and both have an empty cookie, the provider >> should just respond "you're up to date". > > Why not return an error to the consumer? Typically if a consumer receives an error it will disconnect and retry later. There's not much point making the consumer reconnect - which may be costly for a TCP session. If it's a refreshAndPersist consumer, it just needs to hang on and wait for some real data to arrive.

> Does the provider know whether it's running as single-master? Generally yes. A single-master setup has serverID=0.