From user-return-2528-apmail-couchdb-user-archive=couchdb.apache.org@couchdb.apache.org Fri Jan 02 00:19:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 43372 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2009 00:19:50 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 2 Jan 2009 00:19:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 21610 invoked by uid 500); 2 Jan 2009 00:19:49 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 21571 invoked by uid 500); 2 Jan 2009 00:19:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 21560 invoked by uid 99); 2 Jan 2009 00:19:48 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:19:48 -0800 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.2 required=10.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (nike.apache.org: 216.86.168.178 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of geir@pobox.com) Received: from [216.86.168.178] (HELO mxout-03.mxes.net) (216.86.168.178) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:19:39 +0000 Received: from [10.0.1.194] (unknown [67.86.14.166]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7283123E3E1 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 19:19:17 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <278F439B-847E-4980-960D-A26EB2A4A111@pobox.com> From: "Geir Magnusson Jr." To: user@couchdb.apache.org In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Subject: Re: Changing rev to _rev in view results (Was: Re: newbie question #1) Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 19:19:16 -0500 References: <98979283-BB61-4D15-AF05-196979FA42BC@pobox.com> <49C5583B-254D-4D4D-A4F7-AD7306E758F1@gmail.com> <8A2A146E-F011-4502-9DD9-336300392CDC@apache.org> <0743DF91-9015-43DD-9A0F-7E79D6DF4632@gmail.com> <0DE02009-32CB-4A88-8C39-7942E00BF8D6@apache.org> <2CC999E5-9D81-4981-B544-1977B9D16405@gmail.com> <154D8F25-87B3-49DC-9D80-6C68C946ECAF@gmail.com> <34FCDB16-6D06-4401-BCD8-0B053E2E935E@gmail.com> <48250456-2512-46BD-85E1-464457DBC995@pobox.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On Jan 1, 2009, at 5:45 PM, Antony Blakey wrote: > > On 02/01/2009, at 8:15 AM, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > >> If you could point me to an explanation of why changing this is >> bad, I'd love to catch up on the discussion. I assume it's a >> technical reason? > > No. The primary reason is "why change - the current mechanism has > worked for a year". Damien (project lead) doesn't regard change as > necessary, and a significant change to support top-level reflexivity > (which is your primary thrust) doesn't have support from the other > gatekeepers. There is some support for name identity, although I > suspect not enough to prompt a change. > Alright. I hereby cry "Uncle" and will let this go (for a while, anyway...) Thanks all for such an interesting conversation. I look forward to more in this community, as I really find document and other "alternative" databases interesting, and think they are going to be key for "cloud" computing... /me wanders off to try and get more that 6 docs/sec into Couch... geir