Oracle-L: Re: OiD vs. OpenLDAP

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:33:32 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0042AC4C.20020315093332@fatcity.com>

Open LDAP has issues.

Do a search on slashdot.org for commentary on it. I was quite surprised at how many folks had problems with it that prevented them from using it.

Made me feel a bit better about never getting it to work. :)

Jared

"Jesse, Rich" <Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com>
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        Subject:        OiD vs. OpenLDAP

So, as we are about to implement Oracle Internet Directory 3.0.1. I had planned to use our standard method of ARCHIVELOG mode and hotbackups, but Oracle says that it won't be valid for recovery, due to the OiD admin treating some operations, like "ldapaddmt" as atomic (one fail = all fail).
And that recovering to a point in the middle of the ldapaddmt would be bad.

Well, duh. So, what Oracle's saying is that we need to do an ldifwrite (or
ldapsearch) to backup our data. So why use Oracle at all? If you can't use
Oracle's recoverability, why use it? Why not use OpenLDAP? That's what my
supervisor's asking, and I can't come up with an answer.

Thoughts?

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com              Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI

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