On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Tim Penhey <tim.pen...@canonical.com> wrote: > As far as I know (and I may be wrong), if you are adding a document to > the mongo collection, and you do not specify an _id field, mongo will > create a unique value for you.
That's right in most cases, and a requirement for replication. > 1. change the _id field to be a "composed" field where it is the > concatenation of the environment id and the existing id or name field. > If we do take this approach, I strongly recommend having the fields that > make up the key be available by themselves elsewhere in the document > structure. I'd go with this, including your suggestion of splitting the data apart in proper fields. Sounds straightforward and comfortable to deal with. gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net -- Juju-dev mailing list Juju-dev@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju-dev
