I want to add a link in How-To_Guides to a new page on How-To-Do Partial Updates.
Here is the code example: https://gist.github.com/mark-hahn/5238514 Here is part of the discussion I took from a thread on the user mailing list. I will improve it for the wiki page ... -------------- The concept of a DB supporting partial update is to only send the fields that need to change to the DB instead of the entire doc. There is a real efficiency advantage to send a few fields over the wire instead of entire docs. There is also an advantage in having different apps (or parts of one app) only know about some parts of the doc and never having to know the entire doc. One example: I have three different node apps that modify a single progress doc in a single dB based on their work. They are only passed the doc ID and their job assignment when they start and then they mark their progress in the doc as they go.
