well if you don't supply attrs to index then db2index is supposed to reindex all attributes. That's how the current tool works so lib389 should allow "no attributes"

What's the call to ns-slapd that indexes all attributes? I couldn't make it work ....

Hmm I get usage errors, but it says in the usage that its supposed to index all attributes. And I recall adding that feature, so I think we have a bug in the script itself

    echo "Usage: db2index [-Z serverID] [-n backend | {-s includesuffix}* -t attribute[:indextypes[:matchingrules]]"
    echo "                -T vlvTag] [-v] [-h]"
    echo "Options:"
    echo "        -Z serverID       - Server instance identifier"
    echo "        -n backend        - Backend database name.  Example: userRoot"
    echo "        -s includeSuffix  - The suffix to index"
    echo "        -t attribute[:indextypes[:matchingrules]]"
    echo "                          - attributeName: name of the attribute to be indexed";
    echo "                            If omitted, all the indexes defined for that instance are generated."
    echo "                          - indextypes: comma separated index types"
    echo "                          - matchingrules: comma separated matrules"
    echo "                                 Example: -t foo:eq,pres"
    echo "        -T vlvTag         - VLV index name"
    echo "        -v                - Display version"
    echo "        -h                - Display usage"

Yeah its a bug in the script's usage check. If I add "-Z" it works and I can see all indexes getting indexed:

db2index -Z localhost -n userroot

Yes, but ns-slapd requires -t as well. What's the ns-slapd command?

ns-slapd db2index -D /etc.... -n userRoot

does not work :(

Check the db2index script ;-)

Actually the script calls this for complete reindex:

bak_dir=/var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-$servid/bak/reindex_`date +%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S`
/usr/sbin/ns-slapd upgradedb -D $CONFIG_DIR -a "$bak_dir"

So it basically does a reimport - not a reindex of each attr, db2index.pl actually reindexes each attribute. So they behave differently to get the desired results.

I did check the script, it made no sense.

Whaaaaaaa upgradedb? Whaaaaaa????????

I did check the script, it made no sense.
Whaaaaaaa upgradedb? Whaaaaaa????????

Yeah, crazy, but it works. The whole process should be redone some day, because "upgradedb" also makes unexpected backups.

Okay, this now supports the changes to db2index for all db and attrs. As well added a test case to basic to prove it works, and fixed an issue exposed in this in db2index.

LGTM, ack.

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