Hi,

The documentation for back-sql indicates that it is experimental and warns against using it in a production environment. It also says that it is not intended as a general purpose back-end for OpenLDAP. My organization is looking at doing both of those things and I am trying to convince them not to do so. It is proving to be a difficult thing to do.

Initially, I found the results of a performance analysis of back-sql that showed it was significantly slower than BDB and used that as an argument. I was asked to prove it so I built a prototype. The prototype showed that, at least for our purposes, performance was not an issue.

Now I am falling back on the documentation, but very few people are listening. I fear that if we continue down the path we are on we will face significant problems with back-sql. I was hoping someone on the list could provide me with more concrete technical information as to why back-sql should not be used as a general purpose backend for OpenLDAP and/or in a production environment.

Any information is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Craig Worgan

Avaya| System Management Solutions | 250 Sidney Street | Belleville, Ontario Canada K8N 5B7 | (613) 967-5233 | worganc@avaya.commailto:worganc@avaya.com