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From: Luis Miguel Silva <luismiguelferreirasilva@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:10:28 -0600
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Subject: Re: DocumentRevisions - any way to make sure they will always be
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Thanks, Brian pointed me to the guide! :o)

Are the change notifications part of the current product? Or something
like the "https" capability (which only work in 1.1)?

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Sean Copenhaver
<sean.copenhaver@gmail.com> wrote:
> Heh, yeah I should have been a bit more explicit. I was talking about the
> _changes API.
>
> I would suggest checking out the free book and skimming over the wiki if =
you
> are not too familiar with CouchDB:
>
> http://guide.couchdb.org/
> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Luis Miguel Silva <
> luismiguelferreirasilva@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Sean,
>>
>> Is there an easy way to listen for changes?? Does CouchDB provide us
>> with a mechanism to do it?
>>
>> Does anybody have any suggestions on how i should do it?
>>
>> p.s. thanks to all who answered my question [Sean, Paul and David]! (i
>> dont want to send out individual emails to avoid spamming) ;o)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Luis
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Sean Copenhaver
>> <sean.copenhaver@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The revision tree is I believe to help keep track of things for
>> replication
>> > (not positive of this) as well. So it's really an internal mechanism t=
hat
>> we
>> > have access to.
>> >
>> > You could have something listening on _changes and perform this
>> revisioning
>> > and change tracking yourself. Not self contained, but doable.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis@gmail.c=
om
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Luis Miguel Silva
>> >> <luismiguelferreirasilva@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Dear all,
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm very interested in CouchDB's DocumentRevision features because =
i
>> >> > want to be able to store historical data so i can later consume it =
and
>> >> > see how it progressed over time.
>> >> > So my idea would be to simply add a timestamp and that timestamp
>> >> > SHOULD be enough to let me know a new revision has been registered.
>> >> >
>> >> > The thing is, according to the documentation, we cannot guarantee t=
he
>> >> > revisions will be available once the DB is compacted:
>> >> > http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_Document_API
>> >> >
>> >> > But...what is the point of this then? Is there a way to always make
>> >> > revisions available?
>> >> >
>> >> > Also, is it possible to only get the fields that changed between tw=
o
>> >> > revisions?? That would be A-W-E-S-O-M-E for what i need to do :o).
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks in advance,
>> >> > Luis
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> MVCC tokens are not to be used for revision control.
>> >>
>> >> If you need revision control, you need to build it yourself.
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > =93The limits of language are the limits of one's world. =93 -Ludwig v=
on
>> > Wittgenstein
>> >
>>
>
>
>
> --
> =93The limits of language are the limits of one's world. =93 -Ludwig von
> Wittgenstein
>