wohali commented on issue #758: Compaction fails due to a file corruption URL: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/758#issuecomment-333050083 One last comment - you mention purging. Do you mean use of the actual `/{db}/_purge` endpoint, or just document deletion? As the warning in the documentation states, this is an endpoint of last resort. It's possible that use of `/{db}/_purge` for anything other than the occasional deletion may have introduced corruption -- this is a usage scenario the CouchDB team doesn't support. > [Purging a document](http://docs.couchdb.org/en/1.6.1/api/database/misc.html?highlight=purge) from a database should only be done as a last resort when sensitive information has been introduced inadvertently into a database. In clustered or replicated environments it is very difficult to guarantee that a particular purged document has been removed from all replicas. Do not rely on this API as a way of doing secure deletion. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
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