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Robert Newson commented on COUCHDB-1141:
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Hm, I don't recall a JIRA ticket related to that change in July 2010, did it just get changed without a ticket or discussion or am just forgetful?

> Docs deleted via PUT or POST do not have contents removed.
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>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-1141
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1141
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Database Core
>         Environment: All
>            Reporter: Wendall Cada
>            Assignee: Robert Newson
>             Fix For: 1.1.1, 1.2
>
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> If a doc is deleted via -X DELETE, the resulting doc contains only id/rev_deleted:true. However, if a doc is deleted via PUT or POST, through adding _deleted:true, the entire contents of the doc remains stored. Even after compaction, the original document contents remain.
> This issue is causing databases with large docs to become bloated over time, as the original doc contents remain in the database even after being deleted.

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