Yeah, likely the best way to undo this would be to use filtered replication to a local db and then rename the .couch files and reboot to get it swapped over.
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Jim Klo <jim....@sri.com> wrote: > 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 > > >
