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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:30:08 -0700
From: Stephan Bardubitzki <stephan@bardubitzki.com>
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Subject: Re: auto delete docs
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@Simon:

Thanks, again. Could you please double check the link, I can't open it.

@Matthieu

Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with Erlang. I need to do this task on 
node.js with nano (https://github.com/dscape/nano).


On 12-08-30 09:03 AM, Simon Metson wrote:
> Sure, you can use _bulk_docs and send a json doc like:
>
> {
>    "docs": [
>      {"_id": "expired_doc_0", "_rev": "1-62657917", "_deleted": true},
>      {"_id": "expired_doc_1", "_rev": "1-2089673485", "_deleted": true},
>      {"_id": "expired_doc_2", "_rev": "1-2063452834", "_deleted": true}
>    ]
> }
>
>
> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_Bulk_Document_API#Modify_Multiple_Documents_With_a_Single_Request for more info
>
>
> On Thursday, 30 August 2012 at 17:01, Stephan Bardubitzki wrote:
>
>> Thanks Simon,
>>
>> that's what I was thinking too, but have a problem to figure out how
>> bulk delete should be implemented. Do you have some advise or code
>> example on that?
>>
>> Stephan
>>
>>
>> On 12-08-30 08:48 AM, Simon Metson wrote:
>>> You need to have a view keyed by expire_date and an external process (some cron script, say) that queries that appropriately and makes the (bulk) delete of old docs.
>>> Cheers
>>> Simon
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, 30 August 2012 at 16:44, Stephan Bardubitzki wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a db with docs that have a field expire_date. I want to auto
>>>> delete those docs when expire_date has passed, but have no clue how to
>>>> do that.
>>>>
>>>> Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Stephan
>>>>
>>>
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