hyc@symas.com writes:

This seems to be a known limitation, see the FIXME in slapd/compare.c, near SLAP_COMPARE_IN_FRONTEND. At least, that explains the problem for back-ldif, which does not provide its own compare entry point.

Looks like a bug to me, and that the correct fix is be to delete that code and let the current back-ldif return an error.

Maybe it could be split out to a separate function which backends can set be_compare to if they have a be_attribute(), or something like that?

As for back-ldbm, there is a missing referral_rewrite call in back-ldbm/referral.c. I don't consider it worthwhile to fix back-ldbm, but you're welcome to fix it if you wish.

I might, though actually I'm more concerned with failed tests than fixing ldbm at the moment:-) Will look later. However:

Just have a look at back-bdb/referral.c for the correct code.

There is no correct code as yet, note the bogus logging I mentioned.