Re: search with a wildcard works, with exactly matching string it doesn't

[Gregory House]

Hi

Michael: Thanks for tip.  As it happens there was no index at all for
myDeviceId. I created one via:

dn: olcDatabase={2}mdb,cn=config
changetype: modify
add: olcDbIndex
olcDbIndex: myDeviceId

and it seemed to work OK after that.

GH




On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Michael Ströder <mich...@stroeder.com>
wrote:

> Gregory House wrote:
> > If I run a query against my directory with this filter:
> >
> > "(myDeviceId=ZZZ-07430.08.12345678*)"
> >
> > it returns a match showing precisely that myDeviceId =
> > "ZZZ-07430.08.12345678"
> >
> > If I use this filter, without the wildcard and just the actual value
> >
> > "(myDeviceId=ZZZ-07430.08.12345678)"
> >
> > it returns no match.
>
> Wild guess:
> You've added eq-only index for 'myDeviceId' *after* adding the entry.
>
> See also:
>
>   "How do I add an index after populating the database?"
>   http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/136.html
>
> Ciao, Michael.
>
>