I don't see any purge api documented anywhere?
Can someone explain how this works or where I can find info?
As always, I'd gladly update the wiki.

-Randall

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 05:42, Paul Davis <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Paul Davis <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Thomas Delaet <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> If I understand this correctly, the fact that you can not rely on
> >> deleted documents being available cripples the synchronization
> >> mechanism.
> >
> > Compaction only removes the body of deleted documents. Revisions are
> > kept around specifically for this reason.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Paul Davis
> >
>
> Also, on a side note, for people wanting the "remove this document in
> such a matter that replication will *not* delete the document in the
> target db" you want to use the purge API. This is generally *not* what
> most people should use. Purge exists for things like rebalancing nodes
> in a cluster. Effectively operations that want to 'reparent' a docid
> to a different shard or some such.
>
> Paul Davis
>

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