Thanks for not mentioning update handlers. On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Paul J. Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > This is where I don't mention that update handlers can do exactly what you > want. > > The couch way would be to write multiple docs and use a view to get the > desired last value semantics. Though sometimes there are circumstances where > one might want to use some other functionality (which clearly isn't related > to update handlers doing exactly what you want ;) when the ramifications for > circumventing conflict detection are understood. > > On Mar 3, 2011, at 8:19 PM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have a situation where I only want to know the latest version of a >> doc and I don't care about any older versions. I don't care about >> conflicts. >> >> As far as I can tell there is no way to ignore conflicts in couch. So >> I have to read an old version, ignore everything but the version >> value, and then save my new version. Since this isn't atomic I have >> to check for a conflict and repeat it. I have to do this in a number >> of places in my code. >> >> I was just wondering if anyone knows of a more elegant way to do this. >> Has anyone else found a need for this? >
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