[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 156 Create pkey-only option for find commands

[Endi Sukma Dewata]

On 10/26/2011 12:47 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> The new option looks good, but it's still bound by the search size limit
>> so it's not returning the complete set of primary keys. The UI needs to
>> get the complete set in order to compute the pagination.
>>
>> To get the complete set the server probably needs to search the LDAP
>> backend using simple paged results control. There's also a deferred
>> ticket #81, but that's seems to be for supporting paged results in IPA's
>> API.

> For huge installations there is no way we can do unbound queries. There
> will always be some limit on the number of entries returned, searched, etc.

Yes, but the search limit using paged results needs to be reasonably 
bigger than the standard 100 entries, enough to be used in most deployments.

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Endi S. Dewata