Hi everyone,We're psyched about couchdb and are planning to use it in our production system. We have a nice model for documents in our system that builds directly off of the features of couchdb and makes a lot of sense. However, we're not sure how to use couchdb to handle users.
The problem boils down to the difficulty in handing out unique user ids. We understand that introduction of an AUTO INCREMENT behavior would add global shared state to the db, but right now it doesn't seem like you can handle this use case with the existing features of couchdb. (If I'm wrong about that PLEASE correct me!) We have implemented an act-then-check procedure for this for now, but the unpredictability of http request ordering stills means that there can be periods of inconsistent state. I'm wishing for a function that could live in couch that could be called to generate an ID for a new document. This could return the date/time or the server node name or whatever. I'm sure I haven't thought through the potential difficulties here, but I'm curious about the thinking on this, or whether these features are planned, or whatever. In the long term, if the couch features don't change, I think we'll have to use a SQL store for users and couch for documents, but that would dramatically increase the complexity of the system. Thanks in advance, A
