Consider _mvcc as a suggestion to help educate. Other proposals are welcome.
Sent from my iPhone On 15 Apr 2012, at 13:16, Benoit Chesneau <bchesn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Robert Newson <rnew...@apache.org> wrote: >> A bit busy right now but _history seems the exact opposite of the _rev >> -> _mvcc name change. We want to clarify that CouchDB does *not* >> provide history. >> > imo changing the name doesn't really fix the problem. We keep saying > it's mvc, the doc says it but still people want to try it because it's > similar to what they want. I bet that changing the name to _mvcc won't > change anything (also I'm thinking to the nightmare of migration, > havig old nodes talking with new...). > > Imo we can have a more positive answer to the users. They want to have > a revision history they can use. They why not building one. If we > present one that they can use then they won't use _rev for that. > > - benoît
