[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After having seen Howard Chu's slides about back-hdb from March 21, 2003,
I have the impression that deleting a subtree can be done in O(constant)
time. I haven't however understood how.
Question: How does one delete a subtree in a hdb directory?
I have tried deleting the top node, but the server doesn't let me do that.
No. The primary motivation for back-hdb was to support subtree rename
and more efficient DN2ID indexing.
While it would be possible to remove access to an entire subtree in
constant time by just deleting its top node, that would leave all of the
children nodes still hanging around orphaned in the database. Needless
to say, that's not a good idea.
On a slightly related note. I think many users would like the "OpenLDAP
Software Administrator's Guide" to contain sections about the different
modules (both backends and overlays) like it does about proxy-cache. I
think it would be a great help even if they were ever so short. This is of
course not said to critisize the guide as it stands today but rather as a
suggestion for a contribution to anyone who feel they have the
prerequisite knowledge.
There's a lot of info in the FAQ-o-Matic already; probably some of it
should be merged into the Guide. You might start out by browsing the FAQ
and pointing out content that you think is worthy of merging.
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-- Howard Chu
Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com
Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc
OpenLDAP Core Team http://www.openldap.org/project/
