Re: deleting a whole subtree

At 02:12 AM 3/23/2004, Claude wrote:
>Is walking bottom-up through a subtree deleting each leaf entry the
>best way to delete the entire subtree?

Well, by "walking bottom-up", I assume you mean using one-level
searches to walk down and then delete entries on the way up.
A better way, I think, is to do a single subtree search and
then blast deletes for all leafs.  As you get responses back,
issue deletes for entry that becomes (by prior deletes) a
leaf.

There are non-portable extensions that you might experiment
with.  But I suggest you stir clear of them.  Besides being
non-portable, the extensions I've seen so far don't support
distributed directories.  (That is, the subtree may not
necessarily be held within one context.)

Kurt