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Chris Anderson commented on COUCHDB-1141:
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This is proper behavior. (Or -- what Damien said...)
The intent is to allow users the option to save audit data like deleted_at and
deleted_by when they set _deleted=true.
To read these documents you have to fetch them with their rev num.
Now, I haven't figured out how to find their rev num except via the changes
feed, and THAT might be an improvement we should make.
> Docs deleted via PUT or POST do not have contents removed.
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> Key: COUCHDB-1141
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1141
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Database Core
> Environment: All
> Reporter: Wendall Cada
> Assignee: Damien Katz
> Fix For: 1.2
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> If a doc is deleted via -X DELETE, the resulting doc contains only
> id/rev_deleted:true. However, if a doc is deleted via PUT or POST, through
> adding _deleted:true, the entire contents of the doc remains stored. Even
> after compaction, the original document contents remain.
> This issue is causing databases with large docs to become bloated over time,
> as the original doc contents remain in the database even after being deleted.
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