On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Jan Lehnardt <jan@apache.org> wrote:
> Heya,
> On Mar 17, 2008, at 7:29 , Shahar Evron wrote:
> > [...]
>
> > As far as I understood, CouchDB does not keep old revisions
> > indefinitely
> > - so if I update a document, it's previous revisions might be deleted
> > after a while.
> >
> > Is this true?
>
> That is correct. Not at the moment though :) The next release of CouchDB
> will include a mechanism called "compaction" that will run
> periodically and
> prune out old revisions.
>
> We suggest that you manage old revisions to a document that you want
> to keep around in attachments to the latest revision.
>
> Cheers
> Jan
> --
>
why not storing revisions as other document ? better to use attachments ?
- benoît
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