Re: [Exim] LDAP attribute extraction

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Brian Candler
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] LDAP attribute extraction
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Brian Candler wrote:

> I notice there is a function ldap_enable_cache in the OpenLDAP SDK. But it
> doesn't say whether it does 'clever' re-use of queries, or just returns
> the results from identical queries.


It doesn't say on Solaris 8 either.

> There is a philosophical point here; for consistency I would like _all_ the
> queries to go against the LDAP database, or else extract everything into
> .cdb files. But I do live in the real world as well :-)


... as is evidenced by your concern about caching and performance. :-)


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