From dev-return-22884-apmail-couchdb-dev-archive=couchdb.apache.org@couchdb.apache.org Thu Aug 16 15:33:41 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 061F8D105 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:33:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 4318 invoked by uid 500); 16 Aug 2012 15:33:38 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 4183 invoked by uid 500); 16 Aug 2012 15:33:38 -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 3861 invoked by uid 99); 16 Aug 2012 15:33:38 -0000 Received: from arcas.apache.org (HELO arcas) (140.211.11.28) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:33:38 +0000 Received: from arcas.apache.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arcas (Postfix) with ESMTP id 016532C5BE9 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:33:38 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 02:33:38 +1100 (NCT) From: "Simon Metson (JIRA)" To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Message-ID: <247322933.19249.1345131218006.JavaMail.jiratomcat@arcas> Subject: [jira] [Created] (COUCHDB-1524) replication requires write on source MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-JIRA-FingerPrint: 30527f35849b9dde25b450d4833f0394 Simon Metson created COUCHDB-1524: ------------------------------------- Summary: replication requires write on source Key: COUCHDB-1524 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1524 Project: CouchDB Issue Type: Bug Components: Replication Affects Versions: 1.2 Reporter: Simon Metson Replication requires write permissions on the source DB to store check pointing info, if it doesn't have write it returns: {"error":"checkpoint_commit_failure","reason":"Failure on source commit: {error,<<\"unauthorized\">>}"} This results in a partial replication (e.g. changes up until the first check point make it across) and breaks a fairly common use case; having a read only DB that people can replicate to their own server for writes. I think either this message should become a warning (assuming it's safe to ignore) or a different permissions model is needed for checkpoints. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira