From dev-return-21913-apmail-couchdb-dev-archive=couchdb.apache.org@couchdb.apache.org Mon Apr 9 14:01:08 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 47E6F98D6 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2012 14:01:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 25184 invoked by uid 500); 9 Apr 2012 14:01:07 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 25136 invoked by uid 500); 9 Apr 2012 14:01:07 -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 25128 invoked by uid 99); 9 Apr 2012 14:01:07 -0000 Received: from minotaur.apache.org (HELO minotaur.apache.org) (140.211.11.9) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:01:07 +0000 Received: from localhost (HELO mail-iy0-f180.google.com) (127.0.0.1) (smtp-auth username rnewson, mechanism plain) by minotaur.apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:01:07 +0000 Received: by iage36 with SMTP id e36so8289634iag.11 for ; Mon, 09 Apr 2012 07:01:06 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.195.232 with SMTP id ih8mr5145516igc.11.1333980066727; Mon, 09 Apr 2012 07:01:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.240.135 with HTTP; Mon, 9 Apr 2012 07:01:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 10:01:06 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Backwards compatibility From: Robert Newson To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I've updated the wiki page to reflect this. Sorry for not including this in Breaking Changes at release time. B. On 9 April 2012 09:41, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrot= e: >> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 15:12, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote= : >>> I was just trying to upgrade the first of my servers to 1.2, and it >>> wasn't that pretty. As I understand it, compatibility with pre-0.10.0 >>> databases has been dropped. However, this isn't mentioned in the >>> release notes, nor in the Breaking changes. Thus, I had to downgrade >>> to 1.1.1, compact a database and install 1.2.0 again. This is just a >>> PITA, and it seems fairly trivial that something like this should be >>> in the release notes and in the breaking changes. >> >> Forgot to mention something I'm not sure is an issue, but should be >> checked: how resistant is CouchDB against inaccessible _users or >> _replicator? It seems like even _users might at some point be in an >> unsupported on-disk version. I run all of my couches in Admin Party >> mode so I never even look at the _users database, but it probably >> wouldn't work all that well. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dirkjan > > Hi Dirkjan, > > Your probably right about the user migrations. Basically if your use > document doesn't have any owner doc a normal user won't be abble to > update it. On the other hand it should still be possible to > update/delete them with an admin. > > > Can ou create separate issues about this on jira ? (one for migration > , and the other for the users db migration) ? It will help to track > the problem. > > - beno=EEt