On Jun 22, 2011, at 6:31 PM, Jason Smith wrote:

> _changes is a false prophet.
> The best bang-for-buck with the _changes feed is cache invalidation: A
> change is a *hint* that you might want to check something out, but it
> is (IMHO) not generally the primary trigger to execute some code.

Could you explain that in more detail? In particular, what is it that makes 
_changes unreliable? Could something be changed [sic] to make it more 
reliable/useful?

> In your case: Require all new docs to have a field "is_new: true".
> That is very easy to confirm in the validator:

I’m writing a generic framework, not a specific app. I can’t make any 
assumptions about the document schema, that’s up to the application. This 
specific task is just to map the _changes feed to Cocoa NSNotifications so the 
client app can act on them.

—Jens

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