Can't one dump the database to LDIF then make changes?  That's probably not going to work for Amazon or Facebook but we only have 4000 entries in our database.

On Sep 6, 2017 10:32 PM, "Quanah Gibson-Mount" <quanah@symas.com> wrote:
--On Monday, September 04, 2017 11:33 AM +0200 Ulrich Windl
<Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:

>>>> Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@symas.com> schrieb am 01.09.2017 um 21:58
>>>> in
> Nachricht <2032476F3CBBE8B34FB96BAD@[192.168.1.30]>:
>> --On Friday, September 01, 2017 11:48 AM -0400 Douglas Duckworth
>> <dod2014@med.cornell.edu> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Vinyl records are back in style.  So it seems slapd.conf and bdb.
>>
>> Yeah, I got to spend 2+ hours with a customer today because they chose
>> to  use back-bdb, and it lacks subtree rename... so something that
>> should have  been trivial to resolve was a long drawn out process.
>> There are good  reasons things have progressed beyond slapd.conf and
>> back-bdb.
>
> I wonder: Aren't both mdb and bdb key-value databases? So if one backend
> implements a subtree rename, the other could do it as well. I think it's
> nor fair to blame BDB itself for that...

back-hdb supports subtree rename.  Pay attention to the difference between
back-bdb and back-hdb, both which sit on top of BDB.

--Quanah


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