Hello list,

TL;DR

With multimaster deltasyncrepl, when the cluster is partitioned (no 
replication) and conflicting values are added to an entry for a single-valued 
attribute, after the nodes are reconnected and replication commences, is it 
expected for all nodes to end up with the same value for the attribute, or is 
it expected that they may be inconsistent?

The long version:

I'm following test063-delta-multimaster in a local test cluster, with 3 master 
nodes, and I wanted to confirm that I'm not misunderstanding before moving 
forward.

The test test063-delta-multimaster breaks replication and does conflicting adds 
of a single-valued attribute (employeeNumber) with different values on the two 
nodes.  It then restores replication, gives it a bit to replicate, and then 
confirms that the "filtered" ldif is the same.  My confusion is about this 
filtering.

In the test, it does
$LDIFFILTER -s a < $TESTDIR/server$n.out > $TESTDIR/server$n.flt
and then compares the filtered files.

Does this simply sort the attributes and values, or does it strip values?  
Essentially, is this testing that the value of the employeeNumber is the same 
on both nodes, or is it simply testing that the employeeNumber is present on 
both nodes?

Thanks!

Zach

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