Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20D169536 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2012 23:39:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 15001 invoked by uid 500); 2 Mar 2012 23:39:31 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 14969 invoked by uid 500); 2 Mar 2012 23:39:31 -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 14945 invoked by uid 99); 2 Mar 2012 23:39:30 -0000 Received: from minotaur.apache.org (HELO minotaur.apache.org) (140.211.11.9) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:39:30 +0000 Received: from localhost (HELO mail-pz0-f52.google.com) (127.0.0.1) (smtp-auth username rnewson, mechanism plain) by minotaur.apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:39:30 +0000 Received: by dadp12 with SMTP id p12so2381947dad.11 for ; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:39:30 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of rnewson@apache.org designates 10.68.222.194 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.68.222.194; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of rnewson@apache.org designates 10.68.222.194 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=rnewson@apache.org Received: from mr.google.com ([10.68.222.194]) by 10.68.222.194 with SMTP id qo2mr21854182pbc.20.1330731570214 (num_hops = 1); Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:39:30 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.222.194 with SMTP id qo2mr18303867pbc.20.1330731570193; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:39:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.148.13 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Mar 2012 15:39:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <4F50BB8A.3010408@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 23:39:30 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Documentation issue From: Robert Newson To: user@couchdb.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I said 'better' not 'good'. :) On 2 March 2012 20:20, Mark Hahn wrote: >> =A0A better solution is to periodically switch to a new database and the= n > delete the old one (when those sessions are ended). > > How is that any different than purging? =A0It also kills replication.