On Feb 9, 2009, at 8:58 AM, Antony Blakey wrote:
On 10/02/2009, at 12:17 AM, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
On 9 Feb 2009, at 13:38, Antony Blakey wrote:
Antony, those sounds like interesting ideas, and I hope you can
get it working. But a one-way replicable db with full-consistency
guarantees is not what CouchDB was ever intended to be (to be
clear, this is a statement of fact). I don't disapprove of it,
but it doesn't fit with CouchDB's design. I'm also not convinced
of the utility of it in the general case, the one-way replication
limitation to me doesn't solve interesting problems, but that's
just my opinion.
[...]
And if my assumption about the ordering of replication records is
correct, I'd like to see a commit # in the rev because that
enables replication that would preserve an ACID bulk_docs contract
in exclusive replication scenarios.
The question is wether you are willing to drive the coding effort and
community communication to make that happen. Like Damien, I'm not
trying to discourage you, on the contrary, I'd love to see the
community
driving features.
I mentioned this a) to see if Damien thought it would fly (although
I think the commit # needs to be a random); and b) because it
resolves one reason to not even bother with an ACID endpoint; and c)
he has another proposal around changing the rev format.
Sorry, I haven't really even considered it, and I don't plan to spend
much time thinking about it as a technical matter. Before I work on
solving a problem, I first need to convince myself it's worth solving.
I am not convinced at all. There are problems I and the rest of the
community would like to see solved and are waiting for, which is what
my replication security patch is about.
-Damien
I'm happy to do this work, but in both of these cases I would be
stepping on stuff that Damien is actively changing.
Finally, this is the community communication I'm trying to drive!
And I'm overjoyed to see these two threads.
Antony Blakey
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