Re: Migration from bigcouch to later couchdb

2014-02-01 Thread Robert Samuel Newson
Sure, that’s the fallback position. CouchDB’s on-disk format has changed several times over the years, and each time we teach the code to upgrade old to new as it encounters them. We will do that for current CouchDB to clustered CouchDB, the question here is whether we will do the same for BigC

Re: Migration from bigcouch to later couchdb

2014-01-31 Thread Florian Westreicher Bakk.techn.
Would replication not solve that problem all by itself? Robert Samuel Newson wrote: > >Good question. We are certainly obliged to ensure couchdb pre-merge >data upgrades to couchdb post-merge but the bigcouch to couchdb path is >not something we’ve yet committed to. That said, unless it turns o

Re: Migration from bigcouch to later couchdb

2014-01-31 Thread Robert Samuel Newson
Good question. We are certainly obliged to ensure couchdb pre-merge data upgrades to couchdb post-merge but the bigcouch to couchdb path is not something we’ve yet committed to. That said, unless it turns out to be intractable (which seems unlikely) we’ll certainly make an effort to support t

Migration from bigcouch to later couchdb

2014-01-31 Thread Vladimir Ralev
Hello again, Just wondering if bigcouch data files will be compatible with future versions of couchdb now that the projects are merged. Will there be separate ports for data and shards? Will the directory structure of bigcouch be used or it is completely new? What would be the recommended option t