Re: accessing previous document revisions within a view

2012-07-26 Thread Tim Tisdall
Yeah, I'm not planning to rely on it, just a way to hint at which documents I need to look at without having to look at all documents or alter the document's structure. Okay, I guess I'll have to figure out a different approach then... thanks. On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Robert Newson wro

Re: accessing previous document revisions within a view

2012-07-26 Thread Robert Newson
Tim, The couchdb revision system is to provide eventual consistency between database replicas. It is not a user-facing document versioning system. Old revisions are deleted during compaction and are not replicated either. B. On 26 Jul 2012, at 15:00, Tim Tisdall wrote: > Is it possible to acc

Re: accessing previous document revisions within a view

2012-07-26 Thread Tim Tisdall
Is it possible to access revisions through a filter? Using a filter on the changes log would also work for what I'd like to do. On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Alexander Shorin wrote: > Hi Tim, > > CouchDB documents revisions aren't for versioning things[1]. To access > to previous document rev

Re: accessing previous document revisions within a view

2012-07-25 Thread Alexander Shorin
Hi Tim, CouchDB documents revisions aren't for versioning things[1]. To access to previous document revision within view you need to store previous revisions inlined within document and emit them in map function. Note, that this solution promises that document size will rapidly grow over time - yo

accessing previous document revisions within a view

2012-07-25 Thread Tim Tisdall
Is it possible to access a previous revision of a document from within a view? I'd like to output something in a view based on the difference between the revisions of the documents. -Tim