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Adam Kocoloski commented on COUCHDB-1004: ----------------------------------------- A header is certainly doable from the BigCouch perspective. But in general I don't like the fact that we've painted ourselves into an API corner where we cannot extend db.info() in the future without breaking replication. I think to_existing_atom/1 is a fine replacement in this case. If it's an unknown atom we have a guarantee that the replicator is not going to be looking for that particular field, so we might as well just leave it as a binary. > list_to_existing_atom is too restrictive as used by couch_rep > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: COUCHDB-1004 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1004 > Project: CouchDB > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Replication > Environment: erlang > Reporter: Bob Dionne > Priority: Minor > > We'd like to additional information to db_info in BigCouch, such as the Q and > N constants for a given database. This causes replication to fail when > replicating from BigCouch to CouchDB due to the use of list_to_existing_atom > in couch_rep:dbinfo(... > The claim is that list_to_atom pollutes the atoms table, however superficial > testing indicates this is not the case, list_to_atom when called repeatedly > seems to work fine. If this is true then consider reverting > list_to_existing_atom back to list_to_atom. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.