Emmanuel Lecharny wrote:
Thinking about my previous mail, I may have an idea :
what if we don't store the subentry's DN into the selected entries
operational attributes, but the subentry's entryUUID ? This value
*never* changes, we have an index on it, we can also easily build a
cache for it.
It will solve the problems I mentionned with the move and rename
operations, I think.
thoughts ?
Sounds good. Pretty sure that AD uses UUID references everywhere too, for
similar reasons.
I've suggested a few times in the past that LDAP needs a
UUIDAndProvisionalName syntax. The UUID would always be present; the DN may be
present but may or may not be correct/up to date. (Of course, it may seem
senseless to carry a DN around if it isn't always going to be correct, but the
point is to reserve a space to put it for when you do know the correct name,
that's all.)
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