16 Nov
2007
16 Nov
'07
3:10 a.m.
Howard Chu writes:
Imagine I just want to know what's the max uidNumber used in my directory. actually, i ask the server to give all the uidNumbers and my client sort them. isn't it an horrible waste of bandwidth ?
In OpenLDAP you would set an equality index on uidNumber and do a query for, e.g., (uidNumber<=2147483647) with sizelimit=1.
What? That only finds the max uidNumber when you already know an almost-max value, so you can fill it into the filter. Without that you'd need to guess an upper limit and do a binary search. (Though you could use a sizelimit > 1 for that.)
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Hallvard