2010/1/11 Manuel de la Peña <[email protected]>: > Hello *, > > I have been working with couchdb (through python) for Ia while and I was > wondering if you could give me a hand with a small problem I'm having. In my > couchdb python application I'd like to be able to perform a bulk operation > in which more than one document is either updated or added to the database. > Currently the python binding does provide a way to perform a bulk update but > this update it is not understood as a single "transaction" > because, although it uses a single request, the changes are > not sequential in the _changes feed and updates and commits are individual, > that is, if there is an error there rest of the documents are not rolled > back. My question is the following: > > Does couchdb have such a feature that the python bindings is taking > advantage of? > > I do not mind faking the transaction idea from my client code, but I fear > that other applications/parts of the code might work with a document > interval between receiving the result of the bulk update and the rool back > of the operation. Any help would be appreciated. > > Kr, > > Manuel >
There is no such feature in CouchDB. Generally speaking there's probably a way to avoid the necessity to make atomic multi-document transactions with a bit of rethinking, but that depends on your specific use case. HTH, Paul Davis
