Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-couchdb-user-archive@locus.apache.org Received: (qmail 84714 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2008 16:40:39 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 23 Jul 2008 16:40:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 64762 invoked by uid 500); 23 Jul 2008 16:40:39 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-couchdb-user-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 64463 invoked by uid 500); 23 Jul 2008 16:40:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact couchdb-user-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: couchdb-user@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list couchdb-user@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 64452 invoked by uid 99); 23 Jul 2008 16:40:38 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:40:38 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=10.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of gcdcu-couchdb-user@m.gmane.org designates 80.91.229.2 as permitted sender) Received: from [80.91.229.2] (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:39:41 +0000 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KLhNi-0008K7-W9 for couchdb-user@incubator.apache.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:40:03 +0000 Received: from rrcs-74-219-163-171.central.biz.rr.com ([74.219.163.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:40:02 +0000 Received: from matt by rrcs-74-219-163-171.central.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:40:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: couchdb-user@incubator.apache.org From: Matthew Wilson Subject: Re: Selectively keeping revisions around Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:39:09 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <4E69EB4B-8914-4F9C-AD2F-D68649F91153@mubble.net> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rrcs-74-219-163-171.central.biz.rr.com User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) Sender: news X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On Tue 22 Jul 2008 04:50:25 PM EDT, Jan Lehnardt wrote: > Sorry to disappoint you. > > Do not rely on the revisions for what you want to do. > Only go with the no-compaction route if you have > very little data. Hi Jan, I just watched the video of your talk at racklabs, and when you introduced the idea of revision numbers, you made a remark mentioning revision control. I'm at the very beginning of learning about couchdb. I want to make sure I get this right -- are the revision numbers not meant to be used as a historical index going back to the beginning of time? Are they meant to be used as a way to handle lots of nearly parallel writes? That was a really informative talk, by the way. Matt -- Matt Wilson http://tplus1.com