From a7421cb83b94c9972ae74c44cc39c65852993a4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pierangelo Masarati Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:05:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] minimal note on overlay stacking --- doc/guide/admin/overlays.sdf | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guide/admin/overlays.sdf b/doc/guide/admin/overlays.sdf index 175931e908..d49586c636 100644 --- a/doc/guide/admin/overlays.sdf +++ b/doc/guide/admin/overlays.sdf @@ -855,6 +855,14 @@ H2: Overlay Stacking H3: Overview +Overlays can be stacked, which means that more than one overlay +can be instantiated for each database, or for the frontend. +As a consequence, each overlay's function is called, if defined, +when overlay execution is invoked. +Multiple overlays are executed in reverse order (it's a stack, all in all) +with respect to their definition in slapd.conf (5), or with respect +to their ordering in the config database, as documented in slapd-config (5). + H3: Example Scenarios -- 2.39.5