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Paul Joseph Davis commented on COUCHDB-1373:
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Your whitespace is wonky. Indentation in Erlang code should be four spaces and
not tabs. There's also some pure white-space changes.
Also, you should add a note in the default.ini.tpl.in file to indicate that the
new algorithm exists as well as the fact that it requires the
couchdb/machine_id setting to do what it's supposed to. I'm also hesitating if
machine_id shouldn't be in the uuid section or not. Not super important but I
find it a bit odd to have it there.
Also, I wonder if it'd be possible to generate some sort of default machine id
if one isn't specified. Something like, a sha of all mac addresses in sorted
order? Then again I'm not sure how hard it'd be to get that list from Erlang in
a portable fashion.
> Time-ordered document ids including the database identity
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: COUCHDB-1373
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1373
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Database Core
> Reporter: Nick North
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: uuid
> Attachments: couch_uuids.patch
>
>
> This suggestion is for an enhancement to the document id generation
> algorithms in CouchDb. I am new to CouchDb, and this question addresses an
> old issue (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-465) so please
> forgive me if I am retreading old ground.
> My application has a number of mutually replicating CouchDb instances and I
> would like document ids to be monotonically-increasing per-instance, and
> globally unique, and for the instance where the document was created to be
> determinable from the id. (To be more accurate - I don't need to know
> anything about the instance itself; just whether any two documents originated
> from the same instance.) The utc_random algorithm is not far from meeting
> these requirements, as ids are monotonic and almost certainly globally
> unique. However, the instance cannot be determined from the id, and there is
> a tiny chance of an id clash between two instances. Both of these issues
> could be solved if the random part of the id could be replaced with a suffix
> that is fixed in the ini file for each instance.
> To address this I have a modified version of couch_uuids.erl introducing a
> new utc_machine_id algorithm which reads a machine_id string from the ini
> file and then generates ids using an internal utc_suffix method that just
> appends the string to the usual utc 14-byte string. utc_random then also uses
> the utc_suffix method, but its suffix is the usual random byte string.
> However, it is obviously a nuisance to have to maintain a non-standard
> distribution, so I wondered if there is enough call for this sort of thing to
> make it a part of the standard distribution? If there is, I'd be very happy
> to make my code available for discussion/modification/inclusion. If there are
> good reasons why this is a bad idea, then I'd also be very interested to hear
> them so that I can rethink my ideas. (It happens that the privacy and
> guessability concerns raised in the original discussion do not apply in my
> case.) If this question has been beaten to death, then I'm sorry for
> bothering the group, and would be grateful if someone could point me to the
> discussions so that I can understand the issues.
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