On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 4:59 AM, Benoit Chesneau <bchesn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Bottom line: It's my opinion that _replicator (and _user) were wrongly >> exposed as full-blooded databases when all we needed to use was the >> database format (and carefully curate API endpoints). But, alas, that >> train has sailed. >> > > Imo such dbs should be hidden, and we could only provide entry points > accessing to them. For example having all systems dbs under /couchdb/ > prefix and hide them for others excepts admins. Just like postgres > does. I'm agree it was a mistake to expose them. I think we should > stop to do it in near future imo.
Exposing features as manipulations to normal documents makes CouchDB's API simpler and more orthogonal. -- Iris Couch
