[php-maint] PHP5 - LDAP

[Sten Spans]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Steve Langasek wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 02:48:54PM +0200, Sten Spans wrote:
>
>> I noticed that the php5-ldap package is linked against libldap-2.1.30,
>> despite 2.3.30 being available. We've encountered quite extreme
>> performance problems when using a php linked against the older library.
>> A sample query selecting 60k entries will run for 15-20 minutes (100%
>> cpu), but take only 10-20 seconds (!) when using the 2.3.30 libraries.
>
>> Any chance the php5-ldap package could be switched to libldap-2.3 ?
>
> No.  libldap-2.3 is packaged for internal use by openldap only, it is not
> available for use by other packages (and won't be; we won't get a public
> -dev package again until openldap 2.4 when openldap is switched again to use
> GNUTLS in Debian).

That's too bad, but understandable. The extreme performance difference
does require me to create my own packages though.

-- 
Sten Spans

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