On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 22:33, Adam Kocoloski <[email protected]> wrote: > rnewson advocated doing away with the prefix altogether and making it > completely opaque. BigCouch used to work this way; we added the prefix > because we found it convenient to get a rough idea of the number of updates > the DB had seen, but it's hardly necessary. If we did make it opaque we'd > certainly need to fix the replicator so that it saves checkpoints regardless > of sorting order.
It definitely seems nice if we can still get a rough idea of the number of updates from the new sequence identifier. Cheers, Dirkjan
