The purge feature is useful if you want to make a local permanent deletion to a node in the cluster. It remove a document from the repository, but it doesn't record this fact. As far as CDB is concerned, the document never exists. The purge doesn't get replicated.
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Chris Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Chris Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > delete is just a special case of update, internally, that sets the > > _delete field to true. > > > > here I am spewing misinformation (let's call it a typo). > > For the record, Paul Davis is correct, it's the "_deleted" field that > is set to true on delete. > > There's a new purge feature, which actually deletes the data and all > previous revs of it. It's not documented at all, and I'm not sure of > the exact use cases, but it's good to know what's out there. > > -- > Chris Anderson > http://jchris.mfdz.com >
