Not sure how many docs you have, but can you filter replicate the good docs 
into a new db?


Jim Klo
Senior Software Engineer
Center for Software Engineering
SRI International

On May 18, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:

> 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
>> 

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