Overview#
Referential integrity is a mechanism for ensuring that any references to an entry are updated whenever that entry is removed or altered. Historically, referential integrity is primarily used to ensure that attributes with a
DN syntax (especially group membership attributes like
member and
uniqueMember) are properly maintained in the event of
delete and
modify DN operations. For a delete operation, any references to the target entry will be removed. For modify
DN operations, any references to the target entry will be renamed accordingly.
OpenDS does not currently provide a referential integrity mechanism.
EDirectory does currently provide a referential integrity mechanism for
DN attributes.
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