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Robert Newson reassigned COUCHDB-1206:
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Assignee: Robert Newson
> View ETags may be incorrect if ?include_docs=true is specified
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> Key: COUCHDB-1206
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1206
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.1
> Reporter: Jens Alfke
> Assignee: Robert Newson
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.1.1, 1.2
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> Change COUCHDB-799 altered the way ETags are assigned to views, by having the
> ETag change only when the view index changes, not when any document changes.
> Unfortunately this means that a view with the "?include_docs=true" option can
> return an incorrect ETag. The reason is that if a document in the view is
> changed, but the change doesn't affect the view index, the result of the GET
> will change (it will contain the document's updated contents), but the ETag
> won't. This can result in stale data if the client uses a conditional GET,
> because it'll get a 304 even though the prior response is out of date.
> Robert Newson's analysis on the user@ list is "I think the sanest fix is to
> make view etags for include_docs=true use the original algorithm, so that
> they always change if the database changes."
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