Even better, thanks for clarifying!

Cheers
Jan
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> On 19. Jul 2019, at 21:51, Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> couchup uses URLs of the form http://127.0.0.1:5984/ and :5986 (or whatever 
> ports are passed in on the CLI), so this won't be an issue.
> 
> https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/master/rel/overlay/bin/couchup#L223-L230
> 
> +100
> 
> -Joan
> 
>> On 2019-07-19 3:02 p.m., Jan Lehnardt wrote:
>> I think we left in the loophole for the couchup utility that helps folks to 
>> go from 1.x to 2.x, no need for that in 3.x.
>> Cheers
>> Jan
>> —
>>> On 19. Jul 2019, at 20:23, Nick Vatamaniuc <vatam...@apache.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> In 2.x local replication endpoints only seem to work like in 1.x but they
>>> do something quite confusing: instead of replicating a clustered database
>>> they replicate a node local database on the node where the replication job
>>> happens to run. The node were replication runs is essentially random as far
>>> as users are concerned. So "local" replications in 2.x almost never do what
>>> users expect.
>>> 
>>> Over the years this confusion led to numerous question and issues raised in
>>> the IRC channel. So the proposal is to remove support for "local"
>>> replications from versions 3.x and up, and only support "remote"
>>> replication endpoints. That will reduce the support and issue load as well
>>> as replicator code size.
>>> 
>>> What does everyone think?

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