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Robert Newson commented on COUCHDB-576:
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I had a follow-up thought that I maybe never wrote down. Instead of this silly
idea, add a parameter or header that indicates the type of resource you think
you're talking to. Examples of each;
curl -X DELETE <path to a db>?type=database
or
curl -X DELETE -Hx-couchdb-type:document <path to a document>
If you did this;
curl -X DELETE <path to a db>?type=document
we'd reject the delete.
Client libraries, and careful users, could include the ?type= parameter as a
matter of course.
> Require current update_seq when deleting a database for extra safety.
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> Key: COUCHDB-576
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-576
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Database Core
> Reporter: Robert Newson
> Attachments: delete-db-safety-with-tests.patch
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> Require the current update_seq before deleting a database to prevent
> accidental deletion.
> DELETE /db2?seq=12
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