On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 16:15, Chad George <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been wondering about this for a while, when two update requests for the > same document come to couchdb nearly simultaneously what exactly happens? > > Is it possible for both requests to get the same revision of the document to > update or is there some mechanism to force the updates to occur in series? >
There is a mechanism. The message passing within the Erlang runtime guarantee an ordering of messages to the update process. It is impossible for both updates to occur.
