Have you read Damien's overview? http://damienkatz.net/2006/12/couchdb_technic.html
Here are a few other deeper CouchDB technical reads. I find that understanding why it works the way it does makes using the API more intuitive. http://horicky.blogspot.com/2008/10/couchdb-implementation.html http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2008/09/24/reading-erlang-inspecting-couchdb.aspx On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:16 PM, paul jobs <[email protected]> wrote: > interestingso the doc get evicted from the data storage and recover > disk-space on compaction > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Chris Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 9:53 PM, paul jobs <[email protected]> wrote: >> > but the request is a *delete* request, it is not an update request, >> should >> > it not delete unconditionally? and hence i posted to the group >> >> Delete is just another kind of update. >> >> -- >> Chris Anderson >> http://jchris.mfdz.com >> > -- Chris Anderson http://jchris.mfdz.com
