On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 05:04:34PM +0100, Jason Davies wrote: > The other good thing about storing historical > versions as attachments is that they would get replicated. Currently we > don't replicate old MVCC versions, this would have to change as well as > preventing them from being compacted as you say.
However, we do replicate old MVCC versions if they are conflicting, and we do keep them through compaction. Perhaps "conflicting" and "historical" could be treated in roughly the same way? You resolve conflicts by deleting the conflicting rev(s). This could be done for deleting historical versions too.
