In trunk now when you hit a non-existant database you should get back
a JSON body:
{"error": "missing", "reason": "no_db_file"} or similar which would
make it an easy error to detect. As to just creating the database on
the fly, I could see it either way.
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Adam Kocoloski <kocol...@apache.org> wrote:
> The reason you can't stop the replication process is because that pid is
> supervised and will be restarted in the event of abnormal termination, even
> if the HTTP request is canceled.
>
> I agree that it's pretty pointless to keep trying to restart the replication
> if the source or target DB does not exist. I can add some code to
> short-circuit things and return a sensible error. I wonder if the policy
> should be to try to create the target if it does not exist?
>
> Adam
>
> On May 21, 2009, at 6:12 AM, Antony Blakey wrote:
>
>> OK, this was stupid stupid user error, but interesting in that I couldn't
>> stop the replication process - I had to go through the process list and kill
>> each couchdb process.
>>
>> This occurs if you pull replicate into a db that hasn't been created. I
>> think the replicate call should fail in that case.
>>
>> On 21/05/2009, at 6:58 PM, Antony Blakey wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone seen this before?
>>>
>>> =ERROR REPORT==== 21-May-2009::16:51:57 ===
>>> Error in process <0.15765.3> with exit value:
>>> {{badmatch,undefined},[{couch_rep,get_missing_revs,2},{couch_rep,enum_docs_since,4}]}
>>>
>>> [info] [<0.15762.3>] 127.0.0.1 - - 'POST' /acumen-content/_missing_revs
>>> 404
>>> [error] [<0.275.0>] replication enumerator exited with
>>> {{badmatch,undefined},
>>> [{couch_rep,get_missing_revs,2},
>>> {couch_rep,enum_docs_since,4}]} ..
>>> respawning
>>> [debug] [<0.15770.3>] couch_rep HTTP get request:
>>> http://localhost:5985/acumen-content/_all_docs_by_seq?limit=100&startkey=0
>>> [debug] [<0.15770.3>] couch_rep HTTP post request:
>>> http://localhost:5984/acumen-content/_missing_revs
>>> [debug] [<0.15767.3>] 'POST' /acumen-content/_missing_revs {1,1}
>>> Headers: [{'Host',"localhost:5984"},{'Transfer-Encoding',"chunked"}]
>>> [debug] [<0.15767.3>] httpd 404 error response:
>>> {"error":"not_found","reason":"Missing"}
>>>
>>> [error] [emulator] Error in process <0.15770.3> with exit value:
>>> {{badmatch,undefined},[{couch_rep,get_missing_revs,2},{couch_rep,enum_docs_since,4}]}
>>>
>>>
>>> I had a replication that started giving this error. If I kill it and
>>> restart the replication it immediately throws this again and again i.e. the
>>> ability to replicate is permanently hosed.
>>
>> Antony Blakey
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