Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 4303 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2009 12:21:43 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 17 Mar 2009 12:21:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 49774 invoked by uid 500); 17 Mar 2009 12:21:41 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 49742 invoked by uid 500); 17 Mar 2009 12:21:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list dev@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 49730 invoked by uid 99); 17 Mar 2009 12:21:41 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:21:41 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [80.68.94.123] (HELO tumbolia.org) (80.68.94.123) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:21:30 +0000 Received: from nslater by tumbolia.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LjYIA-0002e6-5o for dev@couchdb.apache.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:21:10 +0000 Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:21:10 +0000 From: Noah Slater To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Subject: Re: Removing MOVE Message-ID: <20090317122110.GC1221@tumbolia.org> Mail-Followup-To: dev@couchdb.apache.org References: <20090317113716.GA1221@tumbolia.org> <028121C8-BA9A-45B3-8199-63DBA588C37E@apache.org> <20090317120154.GB1221@tumbolia.org> <02D9BF23-FD6E-47F0-B2BC-64E9C9BD63CE@apache.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <02D9BF23-FD6E-47F0-B2BC-64E9C9BD63CE@apache.org> X-Noah: Awesome User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 01:15:01PM +0100, Jan Lehnardt wrote: > MOVE is commonly understood to be an atomic sequence of copy & delete. > In CouchDB (single or multi-node) MOVE is not atomic. I forgot that MOVE is from RFC2518 (WebDAV) not RFC2616 (HTTP). The MOVE operation on a non-collection resource is the logical equivalent of a copy (COPY), followed by consistency maintenance processing, followed by a delete of the source, where all three actions are performed atomically. - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2518#section-8.9 I'm sold. Let's toss it. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater