On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:42 AM, ara.t.howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the issue i see with that, and with any approach that requires a mutli > document design with couch, is how to perform multi doc updates.
> i guess the more general issue is that, with couch, keep > denormalized data like this (the phone number) is problematic since there is > not way to update it with acid properties. Remember that _bulk_docs updates happen inside a transaction. If any of the updates fails, then none of them are applied. So there's no chance of inconsistency. -- Chris Anderson http://jchris.mfdz.com