Saturday, February 27, 2021

[389-users] Re: Unindexed search

On 2/26/21 8:42 PM, William Brown wrote:
> Substring search indexes are based on trigraphs aka combinations of three letters. So for example, "search" would be broken down to:
>
> "sea"
> "ear"
> "arc"
> "rch"

Just for completeness, it is actually broken down like:

"^se
"sea"
"ear"
"arc"
"rch"
"ch$"

So "cn=a*" --> "^a", which is only two characters and is not indexed, but "cn=ab*" --> "^ab" which is indexed.

>
> This is because 1 and 2 letter indexes were considered "too costly" to maintain when these were originally added.
>
>> On 27 Feb 2021, at 08:49, Chase Miller <chasejmiller@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Why is a one letter wildcard search not hitting the index?...yet if you add two or more letters to the wildcard, the index is used. Yes cn does have 3 indexes on it.
>>
>> Example
>> 26/Feb/2021:16:33:51.189998029 -0600] - NOTICE - ldbm_back_search - Unindexed search: search base="cn=users,o=Xxxxxx,O=Xxxx" scope=1 filter="(cn=a*)" conn=3 op=18
>>
>> Yet if the filter is ab* it uses the index
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>
> William Brown
>
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