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NAME

6       slapd-sql - SQL backend to slapd
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SYNOPSIS

9       /etc/openldap/slapd.conf
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DESCRIPTION

12       The  primary purpose of this slapd(8) backend is to PRESENT information
13       stored in some RDBMS as an LDAP subtree without any  programming  (some
14       SQL and maybe stored procedures can't be considered programming, anyway
15       ;).
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17       That is, for example, when you (some ISP) have account information  you
18       use  in  an  RDBMS,  and  want to use modern solutions that expect such
19       information in LDAP (to authenticate users, make email  lookups  etc.).
20       Or  you want to synchronize or distribute information between different
21       sites/applications that use RDBMSes and/or LDAP.  Or whatever else...
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23       It is NOT designed as a general-purpose backend that uses RDBMS instead
24       of BerkeleyDB (as the standard BDB backend does), though it can be used
25       as  such  with  several  limitations.   You  can   take   a   look   at
26       http://www.openldap.org/faq/index.cgi?file=378                (OpenLDAP
27       FAQ-O-Matic/General LDAP FAQ/Directories vs. conventional databases) to
28       find out more on this point.
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30       The  idea (detailed below) is to use some meta-information to translate
31       LDAP queries to SQL queries, leaving relational  schema  untouched,  so
32       that  old applications can continue using it without any modifications.
33       This allows SQL and LDAP applications to inter-operate without replica‐
34       tion, and exchange data as needed.
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36       The  SQL  backend is designed to be tunable to virtually any relational
37       schema without having to change source (through  that  meta-information
38       mentioned).   Also,  it  uses ODBC to connect to RDBMSes, and is highly
39       configurable for SQL dialects RDBMSes may use, so it may  be  used  for
40       integration  and distribution of data on different RDBMSes, OSes, hosts
41       etc., in other words, in highly heterogeneous environment.
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43       This backend is experimental.
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CONFIGURATION

46       These slapd.conf options apply to the SQL backend database, which means
47       that  they must follow a "database sql" line and come before any subse‐
48       quent "backend" or "database" lines.  Other database options  not  spe‐
49       cific to this backend are described in the slapd.conf(5) manual page.
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DATA SOURCE CONFIGURATION

52       dbname <datasource name>
53              The name of the ODBC datasource to use.
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55       dbhost <hostname>
56       dbpasswd <password>
57       dbuser <username>
58              The  three  above  options  are generally unneeded, because this
59              information is taken from the datasource specified by the dbname
60              directive.   They  allow to override datasource settings.  Also,
61              several RDBMS' drivers  tend  to  require  explicit  passing  of
62              user/password,  even  if  those  are  given in datasource (Note:
63              dbhost is currently ignored).
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SCOPING CONFIGURATION

66       These options specify SQL query templates for scoping searches.
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69       subtree_cond <SQL expression>
70              Specifies a where-clause template used to form a subtree  search
71              condition  (dn="(.+,)?<dn>$").   It  may  differ  from  one  SQL
72              dialect to another (see samples).  By default, it is constructed
73              based  on  the  knowledge about how to normalize DN values (e.g.
74              "<upper_func>(ldap_entries.dn)   LIKE    CONCAT('%',?)");    see
75              upper_func, upper_needs_cast, concat_pattern and strcast_func in
76              "HELPER CONFIGURATION" for details.
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79       children_cond <SQL expression>
80              Specifies a where-clause template used to form a children search
81              condition  (dn=".+,<dn>$").   It may differ from one SQL dialect
82              to another (see samples).  By default, it is  constructed  based
83              on  the  knowledge  about  how  to  normalize  DN  values  (e.g.
84              "<upper_func>(ldap_entries.dn)   LIKE   CONCAT('%,',?)");    see
85              upper_func, upper_needs_cast, concat_pattern and strcast_func in
86              "HELPER CONFIGURATION" for details.
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88
89       use_subtree_shortcut { YES | no }
90              Do not use the subtree condition  when  the  searchBase  is  the
91              database  suffix,  and  the scope is subtree; rather collect all
92              entries.
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94

STATEMENT CONFIGURATION

96       These options specify SQL query templates for  loading  schema  mapping
97       meta-information,  adding  and  deleting  entries to ldap_entries, etc.
98       All these and subtree_cond should have the given default  values.   For
99       the  current  value it is recommended to look at the sources, or in the
100       log output when slapd starts with "-d 5" or  greater.   Note  that  the
101       parameter number and order must not be changed.
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104       oc_query <SQL expression>
105              The  query  that is used to collect the objectClass mapping data
106              from table  ldap_oc_mappings;  see  "METAINFORMATION  USED"  for
107              details.   The default is "SELECT id, name, keytbl, keycol, cre‐
108              ate_proc, delete_proc, expect_return FROM ldap_oc_mappings".
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110
111       at_query <SQL expression>
112              The query that is used to collect the attributeType mapping data
113              from  table  ldap_attr_mappings;  see "METAINFORMATION USED" for
114              details.  The default  is  "SELECT  name,  sel_expr,  from_tbls,
115              join_where,  add_proc,  delete_proc,  param_order, expect_return
116              FROM ldap_attr_mappings WHERE oc_map_id=?".
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119       id_query <SQL expression>
120              The query that is used  to  map  a  DN  to  an  entry  in  table
121              ldap_entries;  see  "METAINFORMATION  USED"  for  details.   The
122              default  is  "SELECT  id,keyval,oc_map_id,dn  FROM  ldap_entries
123              WHERE  <DN  match  expr>",  where <DN match expr> is constructed
124              based on the knowledge about how to normalize  DN  values  (e.g.
125              "dn=?"  if  no  means  to uppercase strings are available; typi‐
126              cally,   "<upper_func>(dn)=?"   is   used);   see    upper_func,
127              upper_needs_cast,  concat_pattern  and  strcast_func  in "HELPER
128              CONFIGURATION" for details.
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131       insentry_stmt <SQL expression>
132              The statement that is used  to  insert  a  new  entry  in  table
133              ldap_entries;  see  "METAINFORMATION  USED"  for  details.   The
134              default is "INSERT INTO  ldap_entries  (dn,  oc_map_id,  parent,
135              keyval) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)".
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137
138       delentry_stmt <SQL expression>
139              The  statement that is used to delete an existing entry from ta‐
140              ble ldap_entries; see "METAINFORMATION USED" for  details.   The
141              default is "DELETE FROM ldap_entries WHERE id=?".
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144       delobjclasses_stmt <SQL expression>
145              The statement that is used to delete an existing entry's ID from
146              table ldap_objclasses; see "METAINFORMATION USED"  for  details.
147              The   default   is   "DELETE  FROM  ldap_entry_objclasses  WHERE
148              entry_id=?".
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150

HELPER CONFIGURATION

152       These statements are used to modify the default behavior of the backend
153       according  to  issues  of  the dialect of the RDBMS.  The first options
154       essentially refer to string and DN normalization when building filters.
155       LDAP  normalization  is  more than upper- (or lower-)casing everything;
156       however, as a reasonable  trade-off,  for  case-sensitive  RDBMSes  the
157       backend can be instructed to uppercase strings and DNs by providing the
158       upper_func directive.  Some RDBMSes, to use functions on arbitrary data
159       types,  e.g.  string  constants, requires a cast, which is triggered by
160       the upper_needs_cast directive.  If required, a  string  cast  function
161       can be provided as well, by using the strcast_func directive.  Finally,
162       a custom string concatenation pattern may be required; it  is  provided
163       by the concat_pattern directive.
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166       upper_func <SQL function name>
167              Specifies  the name of a function that converts a given value to
168              uppercase.  This is used for case insensitive matching when  the
169              RDBMS  is case sensitive.  It may differ from one SQL dialect to
170              another (e.g.  UCASE,  UPPER  or  whatever;  see  samples).   By
171              default,  none  is  used,  i.e.  strings  are not uppercased, so
172              matches may be case sensitive.
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174
175       upper_needs_cast { NO | yes }
176              Set this directive to yes if upper_func needs an  explicit  cast
177              when applied to literal strings.  A cast in the form CAST (<arg>
178              AS VARCHAR(<max DN length>)) is used, where <max DN  length>  is
179              builtin  in  back-sql;  see  macro BACKSQL_MAX_DN_LEN (currently
180              255;   note   that   slapd's    builtin    limit,    in    macro
181              SLAP_LDAPDN_MAXLEN,  is  set to 8192).  This is experimental and
182              may change in future releases.
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185       strcast_func <SQL function name>
186              Specifies the name of a function that converts a given value  to
187              a string for appropriate ordering.  This is used in "SELECT DIS‐
188              TINCT"  statements  for  strongly  typed  RDBMSes  with   little
189              implicit  casting  (like  PostgreSQL),  when a literal string is
190              specified.  This  is  experimental  and  may  change  in  future
191              releases.
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194       concat_pattern <pattern>
195              This  statement  defines the pattern that is used to concatenate
196              strings.  The pattern MUST contain two question marks, '?', that
197              will  be  replaced by the two strings that must be concatenated.
198              The default value is CONCAT(?,?); a form that  is  known  to  be
199              highly  portable  (IBM db2, PostgreSQL) is ?||?, but an explicit
200              cast  may  be  required  when  operating  on  literal   strings:
201              CAST(?||?  AS  VARCHAR(<length>)).   On  some  RDBMSes (IBM db2,
202              MSSQL) the form ?+?  is known to work as well.  Carefully  check
203              the  documentation  of  your RDBMS or stay with the examples for
204              supported ones.  This is experimental and may change  in  future
205              releases.
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208       aliasing_keyword <string>
209              Define  the  aliasing  keyword.   Some RDBMSes use the word "AS"
210              (the default), others don't use any.
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212
213       aliasing_quote <string>
214              Define the quoting char of the aliasing keyword.   Some  RDBMSes
215              don't  require  any  (the default), others may require single or
216              double quotes.
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218
219       has_ldapinfo_dn_ru { NO | yes }
220              Explicitly inform the backend whether the dn_ru  column  (DN  in
221              reverse  uppercased  form)  is  present  in  table ldap_entries.
222              Overrides automatic check (this is required,  for  instance,  by
223              PostgreSQL/unixODBC).   This  is  experimental and may change in
224              future releases.
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226
227       fail_if_no_mapping { NO | yes }
228              When set to yes it forces attribute write operations to fail  if
229              no  appropriate  mapping between LDAP attributes and SQL data is
230              available.  The default behavior is to ignore those changes that
231              cannot be mapped.  It has no impact on objectClass mapping, i.e.
232              if the structuralObjectClass of an entry cannot be mapped to SQL
233              by  looking  up  its  name in ldap_oc_mappings, an add operation
234              will fail regardless of the fail_if_no_mapping switch; see  sec‐
235              tion  "METAINFORMATION  USED" for details.  This is experimental
236              and may change in future releases.
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239       allow_orphans { NO | yes }
240              When set to yes orphaned entries (i.e. without the parent  entry
241              in  the database) can be added.  This option should be used with
242              care, possibly in conjunction with  some  special  rule  on  the
243              RDBMS side that dynamically creates the missing parent.
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246       baseObject [ <filename> ]
247              Instructs the database to create and manage an in-memory baseOb‐
248              ject entry instead of looking for one  in  the  RDBMS.   If  the
249              (optional)  <filename> argument is given, the entry is read from
250              that file in LDIF(5) format; otherwise, an  entry  with  object‐
251              Class  extensibleObject  is created based on the contents of the
252              RDN  of  the  baseObject.   This  is  particularly  useful  when
253              ldap_entries  information  is  stored in a view rather than in a
254              table, and union is not supported for views, so  that  the  view
255              can only specify one rule to compute the entry structure for one
256              objectClass.   This  topic  is  discussed  further  in   section
257              "METAINFORMATION  USED".  This is experimental and may change in
258              future releases.
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260
261       create_needs_select { NO | yes }
262              Instructs the database whether or not entry  creation  in  table
263              ldap_entries  needs a subsequent select to collect the automati‐
264              cally assigned ID, instead of being returned by a stored  proce‐
265              dure.
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267
268       fetch_attrs <attrlist>
269       fetch_all_attrs { NO | yes }
270              The  first statement allows to provide a list of attributes that
271              must always be fetched in addition to  those  requested  by  any
272              specific  operation,  because  they  are required for the proper
273              usage of the backend.  For instance, all attributes used in ACLs
274              should  be  listed  here.  The second statement is a shortcut to
275              require all attributes to  be  always  loaded.   Note  that  the
276              dynamically  generated attributes, e.g. hasSubordinates, entryDN
277              and other implementation dependent attributes are NOT  generated
278              at this point, for consistency with the rest of slapd.  This may
279              change in the future.
280
281
282       check_schema { YES | no }
283              Instructs the database to  check  schema  adherence  of  entries
284              after  modifications,  and  structural  objectClass  chain  when
285              entries are built.  By default it is set to yes.
286
287
288       sqllayer <name> [...]
289              Loads the layer <name> onto a stack of helpers that are used  to
290              map  DNs from LDAP to SQL representation and vice-versa.  Subse‐
291              quent args are passed to the layer configuration routine.   This
292              is  highly  experimental  and  should be used with extreme care.
293              The API of the layers is not frozen yet, so it is unpublished.
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295
296       autocommit { NO | yes }
297              Activates autocommit; by default, it is off.
298
299

METAINFORMATION USED

301       Almost everything mentioned later is illustrated in examples located in
302       the  servers/slapd/back-sql/rdbms_depend/  directory  in  the  OpenLDAP
303       source tree, and contains scripts for generating  sample  database  for
304       Oracle,  MS  SQL  Server,  mySQL and more (including PostgreSQL and IBM
305       db2).
306
307       The first thing that one must  arrange  is  what  set  of  LDAP  object
308       classes can present your RDBMS information.
309
310       The  easiest way is to create an objectClass for each entity you had in
311       ER-diagram when  designing  your  relational  schema.   Any  relational
312       schema,  no  matter how normalized it is, was designed after some model
313       of your application's domain (for instance, accounts, services etc.  in
314       ISP),  and is used in terms of its entities, not just tables of normal‐
315       ized schema.  It means that for every attribute of every such  instance
316       there is an effective SQL query that loads its values.
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318       Also you might want your object classes to conform to some of the stan‐
319       dard schemas like inetOrgPerson etc.
320
321       Nevertheless, when you think it out, we must define a way to  translate
322       LDAP operation requests to (a series of) SQL queries.  Let us deal with
323       the SEARCH operation.
324
325       Example: Let's suppose that we store information about persons  working
326       in our organization in two tables:
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328         PERSONS              PHONES
329         ----------           -------------
330         id integer           id integer
331         first_name varchar   pers_id integer references persons(id)
332         last_name varchar    phone
333         middle_name varchar
334         ...
335
336       (PHONES  contains telephone numbers associated with persons).  A person
337       can have several numbers, then PHONES  contains  several  records  with
338       corresponding  pers_id,  or  no  numbers (and no records in PHONES with
339       such pers_id).  An LDAP objectclass to present such  information  could
340       look like this:
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342         person
343         -------
344         MUST cn
345         MAY telephoneNumber $ firstName $ lastName
346         ...
347
348       To  fetch all values for cn attribute given person ID, we construct the
349       query:
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351         SELECT CONCAT(persons.first_name,' ',persons.last_name)
352             AS cn FROM persons WHERE persons.id=?
353
354       for telephoneNumber we can use:
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356         SELECT phones.phone AS telephoneNumber FROM persons,phones
357             WHERE persons.id=phones.pers_id AND persons.id=?
358
359       If we wanted to service LDAP requests with filters like  (telephoneNum‐
360       ber=123*), we would construct something like:
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362         SELECT ... FROM persons,phones
363             WHERE persons.id=phones.pers_id
364                 AND persons.id=?
365                 AND phones.phone like '%1%2%3%'
366
367       (note  how  the telephoneNumber match is expanded in multiple wildcards
368       to account for interspersed ininfluential chars like spaces, dashes and
369       so;  this  occurs  by design because telephoneNumber is defined after a
370       specially recognized syntax).  So, if we  had  information  about  what
371       tables  contain values for each attribute, how to join these tables and
372       arrange these values, we  could  try  to  automatically  generate  such
373       statements, and translate search filters to SQL WHERE clauses.
374
375       To  store  such information, we add three more tables to our schema and
376       fill it with data (see samples):
377
378         ldap_oc_mappings (some columns are not listed for clarity)
379         ---------------
380         id=1
381         name="person"
382         keytbl="persons"
383         keycol="id"
384
385       This table defines a mapping between objectclass (its name held in  the
386       "name"  column), and a table that holds the primary key for correspond‐
387       ing entities.  For instance, in our example, the person  entity,  which
388       we are trying to present as "person" objectclass, resides in two tables
389       (persons and phones), and is identified by the persons.id column  (that
390       we  will call the primary key for this entity).  Keytbl and keycol thus
391       contain "persons" (name of the table), and "id" (name of the column).
392
393         ldap_attr_mappings (some columns are not listed for clarity)
394         -----------
395         id=1
396         oc_map_id=1
397         name="cn"
398         sel_expr="CONCAT(persons.first_name,' ',persons.last_name)"
399         from_tbls="persons"
400         join_where=NULL
401         ************
402         id=<n>
403         oc_map_id=1
404         name="telephoneNumber"
405         sel_expr="phones.phone"
406         from_tbls="persons,phones"
407         join_where="phones.pers_id=persons.id"
408
409       This table defines mappings between LDAP  attributes  and  SQL  queries
410       that  load  their values.  Note that, unlike LDAP schema, these are not
411       attribute types - the attribute "cn" for "person" objectclass can  have
412       its values in different tables than "cn" for some other objectclass, so
413       attribute mappings depend on  objectclass  mappings  (unlike  attribute
414       types  in  LDAP schema, which are indifferent to objectclasses).  Thus,
415       we have oc_map_id column with link to oc_mappings table.
416
417       Now we cut the SQL query that loads values for a given attribute into 3
418       parts.  First goes into sel_expr column - this is the expression we had
419       between SELECT and FROM keywords, which defines WHAT to load.  Next  is
420       table  list  -  text  between  FROM and WHERE keywords.  It may contain
421       aliases for convenience (see examples).  The last is part of the  where
422       clause, which (if it exists at all) expresses the condition for joining
423       the table containing values with the table containing the  primary  key
424       (foreign  key  equality  and such).  If values are in the same table as
425       the primary key, then this column is left NULL  (as  for  cn  attribute
426       above).
427
428       Having  this  information  in  parts, we are able to not only construct
429       queries that load attribute values by id of entry (for  this  we  could
430       store SQL query as a whole), but to construct queries that load id's of
431       objects that correspond to a given search filter (or at least  part  of
432       it).  See below for examples.
433
434         ldap_entries
435         ------------
436         id=1
437         dn=<dn you choose>
438         oc_map_id=...
439         parent=<parent record id>
440         keyval=<value of primary key>
441
442       This  table  defines mappings between DNs of entries in your LDAP tree,
443       and values of primary keys for corresponding relational data.   It  has
444       recursive structure (parent column references id column of the same ta‐
445       ble), which allows you to add any tree structure(s) to your flat  rela‐
446       tional  data.  Having id of objectclass mapping, we can determine table
447       and column for primary key, and keyval stores value of it, thus  defin‐
448       ing the exact tuple corresponding to the LDAP entry with this DN.
449
450       Note  that such design (see exact SQL table creation query) implies one
451       important constraint - the key must be an integer.  But all that I know
452       about well-designed schemas makes me think that it's not very narrow ;)
453       If anyone needs support for different types for keys - he may  want  to
454       write a patch, and submit it to OpenLDAP ITS, then I'll include it.
455
456       Also,  several users complained that they don't really need very struc‐
457       tured trees, and they don't want to update one more  table  every  time
458       they  add or delete an instance in the relational schema.  Those people
459       can use a view instead of a real table for ldap_entries, something like
460       this (by Robin Elfrink):
461
462         CREATE VIEW ldap_entries (id, dn, oc_map_id, parent, keyval)
463             AS
464                 SELECT 0, UPPER('o=MyCompany,c=NL'),
465                     3, 0, 'baseObject' FROM unixusers WHERE userid='root'
466             UNION
467                 SELECT (1000000000+userid),
468                     UPPER(CONCAT(CONCAT('cn=',gecos),',o=MyCompany,c=NL')),
469                     1, 0, userid FROM unixusers
470             UNION
471                 SELECT (2000000000+groupnummer),
472                     UPPER(CONCAT(CONCAT('cn=',groupnaam),',o=MyCompany,c=NL')),
473                     2, 0, groupnummer FROM groups;
474
475
476       If  your  RDBMS  does not support unions in views, only one objectClass
477       can be mapped in ldap_entries, and the baseObject cannot be created; in
478       this case, see the baseObject directive for a possible workaround.
479
480

TYPICAL SQL BACKEND OPERATION

482       Having  meta-information  loaded,  the SQL backend uses these tables to
483       determine a set of primary keys  of  candidates  (depending  on  search
484       scope  and  filter).  It tries to do it for each objectclass registered
485       in ldap_objclasses.
486
487       Example: for our query with filter (telephoneNumber=123*) we would  get
488       the following query generated (which loads candidate IDs)
489
490         SELECT ldap_entries.id,persons.id, 'person' AS objectClass,
491                ldap_entries.dn AS dn
492           FROM ldap_entries,persons,phones
493          WHERE persons.id=ldap_entries.keyval
494            AND ldap_entries.objclass=?
495            AND ldap_entries.parent=?
496            AND phones.pers_id=persons.id
497            AND (phones.phone LIKE '%1%2%3%')
498
499       (for  ONELEVEL  search) or "... AND dn=?" (for BASE search) or "... AND
500       dn LIKE '%?'" (for SUBTREE)
501
502       Then, for each candidate, we load the requested attributes  using  per-
503       attribute queries like
504
505         SELECT phones.phone AS telephoneNumber
506           FROM persons,phones
507          WHERE persons.id=? AND phones.pers_id=persons.id
508
509       Then,  we use test_filter() from the frontend API to test the entry for
510       a full LDAP search filter match (since we cannot effectively make sense
511       of SYNTAX of corresponding LDAP schema attribute, we translate the fil‐
512       ter into the most relaxed SQL condition to filter candidates), and send
513       it to the user.
514
515       ADD,  DELETE,  MODIFY  and MODRDN operations are also performed on per-
516       attribute meta-information (add_proc etc.).  In those  fields  one  can
517       specify  an  SQL  statement  or stored procedure call which can add, or
518       delete given values of a given attribute, using the given entry  keyval
519       (see examples -- mostly PostgreSQL, ORACLE and MSSQL - since as of this
520       writing there are no stored procs in MySQL).
521
522       We just add more columns to  ldap_oc_mappings  and  ldap_attr_mappings,
523       holding  statements  to  execute  (like create_proc, add_proc, del_proc
524       etc.), and flags governing the order  of  parameters  passed  to  those
525       statements.   Please  see  samples  to find out what are the parameters
526       passed, and other information on this matter - they  are  self-explana‐
527       tory for those familiar with the concepts expressed above.
528

COMMON TECHNIQUES

530       First  of  all,  let's recall that among other major differences to the
531       complete LDAP data  model,  the  above  illustrated  concept  does  not
532       directly support such features as multiple objectclasses per entry, and
533       referrals.  Fortunately, they are easy to adopt in  this  scheme.   The
534       SQL  backend  requires  that  one  more  table  is added to the schema:
535       ldap_entry_objectclasses(entry_id,oc_name).
536
537       That table contains any number of objectclass names that  corresponding
538       entries  will  possess,  in addition to that mentioned in mapping.  The
539       SQL backend automatically adds attribute mapping for the  "objectclass"
540       attribute  to  each objectclass mapping that loads values from this ta‐
541       ble.  So, you may, for instance, have a mapping for inetOrgPerson,  and
542       use it for queries for "person" objectclass...
543
544       Referrals  used  to be implemented in a loose manner by adding an extra
545       table that allowed any entry to host a "ref" attribute,  along  with  a
546       "referral"  extra  objectClass  in table ldap_entry_objclasses.  In the
547       current implementation, referrals are  treated  like  any  other  user-
548       defined schema, since "referral" is a structural objectclass.  The sug‐
549       gested practice is to define a "referral"  entry  in  ldap_oc_mappings,
550       holding  a naming attribute, e.g. "ou" or "cn", a "ref" attribute, con‐
551       taining the url; in case multiple referrals per  entry  are  needed,  a
552       separate  table  for  urls can be created, where urls are mapped to the
553       respective entries.  The use of the naming attribute  usually  requires
554       to add an "extensibleObject" value to ldap_entry_objclasses.
555
556

CAVEATS

558       As  previously stated, this backend should not be considered a replace‐
559       ment of other data storage backends, but rather a gateway  to  existing
560       RDBMS storages that need to be published in LDAP form.
561
562       The  hasSubordintes  operational  attribute  is  honored by back-sql in
563       search results and in compare operations; it is partially honored  also
564       in  filtering.   Owing to design limitations, a (brain-dead?) filter of
565       the form (!(hasSubordinates=TRUE)) will  give  no  results  instead  of
566       returning  all  the  leaf entries, because it actually expands into ...
567       AND NOT (1=1).  If you need to find all the leaf  entries,  please  use
568       (hasSubordinates=FALSE) instead.
569
570       A  directoryString  value  of  the form "__First___Last_" (where under‐
571       scores mean spaces, ASCII 0x20  char)  corresponds  to  its  prettified
572       counterpart  "First_Last"; this is not currently honored by back-sql if
573       non-prettified data is written via RDBMS; when non-prettified  data  is
574       written  through  back-sql,  the  prettified  values  are actually used
575       instead.
576
577

BUGS

579       When the ldap_entry_objclasses table is empty, filters on  the  object‐
580       Class attribute erroneously result in no candidates.  A workaround con‐
581       sists in adding at least one row to that table, no matter if  valid  or
582       not.
583
584

PROXY CACHE OVERLAY

586       The  proxy  cache  overlay  allows  caching  of  LDAP  search  requests
587       (queries) in a local database.  See slapo-pcache(5) for details.
588

EXAMPLES

590       There are  example  SQL  modules  in  the  slapd/back-sql/rdbms_depend/
591       directory in the OpenLDAP source tree.
592

ACCESS CONTROL

594       The  sql  backend  honors  access  control  semantics  as  indicated in
595       slapd.access(5) (including the disclose access privilege  when  enabled
596       at compile time).
597

FILES

599       /etc/openldap/slapd.conf
600              default slapd configuration file
601

SEE ALSO

603       slapd.conf(5), slapd(8).
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607OpenLDAP 2.4.44                   2016/02/05                      SLAPD-SQL(5)
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