Re: deb versioned database dirs

2012-10-07 Thread Noah Slater
Okay, cool. :) On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Randall Leeds randall.le...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Robert Newson rnew...@apache.org wrote: It's currently the case, yes. We can read 0.10.0 onwards, I think. What I think we *can* promise is that we'll read 1.0.0

Re: deb versioned database dirs

2012-09-14 Thread Randall Leeds
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Robert Newson rnew...@apache.org wrote: It's currently the case, yes. We can read 0.10.0 onwards, I think. What I think we *can* promise is that we'll read 1.0.0 onwards for the forseeable future. If that changes, then that upgrade is the one that will need

Re: deb versioned database dirs

2012-09-12 Thread Robert Newson
From 1.0.0 onwards we promise to support forward migration of database and view files, we shouldn't be introducing any breaking changes that prevent any future couchdb release from reading .couch files from 1.0.0 or any release hence. The versioned database dir pattern must have been useful in

Re: deb versioned database dirs

2012-09-12 Thread Noah Slater
In my experience of Debian, when you upgrade Postgres or MySQL from one version to another, you actually have different packages. So postgres2.3, postgres2.4, etc. Which means, because of how Debian works, you're getting different directories right out of the box. (Though, they may share the same

Re: deb versioned database dirs

2012-09-12 Thread Robert Newson
It's currently the case, yes. We can read 0.10.0 onwards, I think. What I think we *can* promise is that we'll read 1.0.0 onwards for the forseeable future. If that changes, then that upgrade is the one that will need extra care and attention. B. On 12 Sep 2012, at 11:36, Noah Slater wrote:

Re: deb versioned database dirs

2012-09-11 Thread Randall Leeds
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Noah Slater nsla...@tumbolia.org wrote: Randall, Sorry for the very late reply (doing some long overdue email sprints). Absolutely no worries. I've been doing a bit of the same myself. And if you hadn't noticed, I haven't been hacking on couch much in the last

Re: deb versioned database dirs

2012-09-09 Thread Noah Slater
Randall, Sorry for the very late reply (doing some long overdue email sprints). What did you do about this in the end? I was the one who designed that scheme for Debian, so I can, at least, let you know the thinking behind it. I was concerned about an update to CouchDB breaking, or corrupting,

Re: deb versioned database dirs

2012-04-07 Thread Robert Newson
+1. On 6 April 2012 22:52, Randall Leeds randall.le...@gmail.com wrote: The deb packaging I pulled from downstream has the following: Apache CouchDB is alpha software and still under heavy development. Please be aware that important areas such as the public API or internal database format

deb versioned database dirs

2012-04-06 Thread Randall Leeds
The deb packaging I pulled from downstream has the following: Apache CouchDB is alpha software and still under heavy development. Please be aware that important areas such as the public API or internal database format may see backwards incompatible changes between versions. ... The partitioned