On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 01:15:01PM +0100, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
> MOVE is commonly understood to be an atomic sequence of copy & delete.
> In CouchDB (single or multi-node) MOVE is not atomic.
I forgot that MOVE is from RFC2518 (WebDAV) not RFC2616 (HTTP).
The MOVE operation on a non-collection resource is the logical equivalent of a
copy (COPY), followed by consistency maintenance processing, followed by a
delete of the source, where all three actions are performed atomically.
- http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2518#section-8.9
I'm sold. Let's toss it.
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Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
