On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 09:24 +0100, Sebastian Cohnen wrote:
> Still I don't see a reason for that situation to become a real problem:
>
> >      * Does this actually break couchdb? Ie would it be impossible to
> >        upload two different attachments with the same MD5?
> >              * To the same document?
>
> I'm not sure on this one, but since attachments are "namespaced" by their 
> name, which have to be unique per document, I don't see a problem for them 
> having the same MD5 sum.
>
> >              * To different documents?
>
> Different documents are "namespaced" by their ID, so no problem here.
>
> >      * Are there any other implications? Would replication get
> >        confused?
>
> AFAIK replication does only take a look at _id and _rev.

Thanks a lot, that all sounds like excellent news.


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