> On 7. Jul 2020, at 16:42, Nick Vatamaniuc <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Sharath,
>
> You can use {"source": ..., "target": ..., "create_target": true,
> "create_target_params": {"partitioned": true}, ...} to create
> partitioned target dbs.
>
> The option was there since version 2.2.0
> https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/whatsnew/2.2.html?highlight=create_target_params#features
> but unfortunately it was not documented yet.
lol, thanks for digging this out. That explains why I couldn’t find it in the
docs 😂
PRs welcome ;)
Best
Jan
—
>
> Cheers,
> -Nick
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 9:23 AM Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 7. Jul 2020, at 15:19, Sharath <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks - thats what I thought.
>>
>> Ah yes, I was assuming your _ids were already set up correctly.
>>
>> Best
>> Jan
>> —
>>>
>>> Have to write an ETL job for my hugeish database - would be cool if
>>> replication protocol could be used to achieve the same thing.
>>>
>>> Sharath
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 11:15 PM Adam Kocoloski <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The tricky part is that partitioned databases have a hard requirement on
>>>> document IDs to have a “:” in them to demarcate between the partition and
>>>> rest of the document ID. Replication can’t change document ID, but if the
>>>> source database happens to fulfill that requirement for all of its
>>>> documents (excluding _design documents), then you could create a
>>>> partitioned database on the target and replicate into it. But that’s a
>>>> pretty unlikely coincidence.
>>>>
>>>> Switching to partitioned databases is unfortunately more likely to require
>>>> an external ETL job.
>>>>
>>>> Adam
>>>>
>>>>> On Jul 7, 2020, at 8:30 AM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Sharath,
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 7. Jul 2020, at 14:17, Sharath <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Got couchdb 3.1 running and migrated my database (replicated) over.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Read about partitioning and have the following questions:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can a partitioned database be created when replicating from another
>>>> couchdb
>>>>>> instance?
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you mean with the `create_target: true` option? Probably not, but you
>>>> can
>>>>> create the database yourself as partitioned and then replicate over.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best
>>>>> Jan
>>>>> —
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [I think not but have to ask]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks
>>>>>> Sharath
>>>>
>>>>
>>
