Renaming of attributes in ldap schema

Hello,

I have a general ldap question: I would like to use ldap as configuration store for my applications. Each application gets his own object schema, since then the number properties is deterministic.

Since a number of developers are involved, I try to generate the schema definition from a ruby DSL. I am now thinking about what happens to existing entries in the dit if the oids or names of the attribute definitons has changed? Are they invalid after ldap server restart? Would you recommend not to renaming any elements in the schema?

I have seen that the attributes on existing entries disappeared if I change the name in the schema.

Regards,

Thilko