On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Adam Kocoloski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 3, 2012, at 3:23 AM, Paul Hirst wrote: > >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Robert Newson [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: 24 December 2011 12:46 >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: Delete replication history >>> >>> I believe Jim is referring to the replication checkpoint document >>> (which does indeed include 'historical' information). Jim is also >>> correct in that the presence of this document will prevent a full >>> re-replication when the target's validate_doc_update function is >>> altered. >>> >>> Jim, the replication checkpoint document is named in the way: >>> /dbname/_local/<hash>. You should be able to see this document being >>> written to in the logs and the <hash> portion is also the value you >>> get back when POST'ing to _replicate (and the one shown in >>> _active_tasks). Delete the document in the usual fashion and >>> replication will do over from the start. >> >> I've only ever been able to find the hash value in the log. If it's in >> _active_tasks where is it? >> >> My replication entries in _active_tasks look like >> >> ba3959: http://myserver.example:5984/mydb/ -> mydb >> >> And I don't believe ba3959 is long enough. Isn't the hash an MD5 of the >> replication information? >> >> If there was a way to get it out of _active_tasks it would be extremely >> convenient. >> >> Sophos Limited, The Pentagon, Abingdon Science Park, Abingdon, OX14 3YP, >> United Kingdom. >> Company Reg No 2096520. VAT Reg No GB 991 2418 08. > > > Currently _active_tasks only reports the first six characters of the hash. > I'm not opposed to having it report the full hash, especially now that the > _active_tasks output is semi-structured.
The branch for the next major release, 1.2.x, already reports the full id (unlike all current releases which only report the first 6 characters in _active_tasks). > > Adam -- Filipe David Manana, "Reasonable men adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable men adapt the world to themselves. That's why all progress depends on unreasonable men."
