Deleted docs return 404 when fetched, that's normal. If you're fetching an
older revision than the latest, it will also be missing if you've compacted the
database.
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> On 24 Dec 2016, at 17:32, Ian Goodacre <ian.gooda...@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am running CouchDB 1.6.1 on Linux.
>
> I have a database that has many deleted documents and I am able to retrieve
> most of these but there are a few that I am unable to retrieve. When I
> attempt to retrieve these, I get 404 with error 'not_found' and reason
> 'missing'.
>
> I would like to understand why these few documents are different - why am I
> unable to retrieve these deleted documents?
>
> For example, _changes response includes:
>
> {
> "deleted": true,
> "changes": [
> {
> "rev": "2-338d783957e141566caf3662cc0726bb"
> }
> ],
> "id": "assets_0000245",
> "seq": 2355
> },
>
>
> When I attempt to retrieve this with:
>
> http://localhost:5984/dcm_assets_tp/assets_0000245?rev=2-338d783957e141566caf3662cc0726bb
>
> I get a 404 response.
>
> I am expecting to get the deleted document, even it if only contains _id,
> _rev and _deleted.
>
> Also, I don't understand the response to
>
> curl --noproxy '*' -X GET
> 'http://localhost:5984/dcm_assets_tp/assets_0000245?open_revs=all'
>
> which is
>
> --a341c8902ae323bd6ea7d938bc0c2ac5--
>
> And I get the same in response to
>
> http://localhost:5984/dcm_assets_tp/assets_0000245?revs=true&open_revs=all
>
> But, if I add -H 'Accept: application/json' then I get an empty array ([]):
>
> curl --noproxy '*' -X GET -H 'Accept: application/json'
> 'http://localhost:5984/dcm_assets_tp/assets_0000245?open_revs=all'
>
>
> I must be misunderstanding something (or a lot of things). Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Ian
>
