After further reading it seems like I could use _purge ... However, I still need to query the DB to fetch all the revisions.
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Tim Tisdall <tisd...@gmail.com> wrote: > I accidentally created several million documents in my DB which I'd like > to undo. ^_^ I know I can query each document to get the revision and > then issue a DELETE, but that seems like a lot of additional work. Also, > the wiki says "Deleted documents remain in the database forever, even after > compaction, to allow eventual consistency when replicating." and that's a > lot of dead space. Is there a way that I can purge all of those documents > given that I have the _ids that they were saved under? I essentially would > like to return the DB to a state before I inserted all of those documents. > > I'm also going to be inserting updated documents to the DB with those same > _ids, so another alternative is to post updates to each (but that would > also require getting the revision ids) and then clearing out old revisions. > However, this would require fetching several million revision ids and then > figuring out how to force the DB to clear out all old revisions. > > -Tim >
