the changes feed is used for replication. It is essential that a document deleted on A is deleted on B when you replicate A to B. CouchDB only replicates the latest version of any document, which is why you will see a document only once, not five times.
The changes feed does not include every change made to the database, it is a list, in update order, of the current revisions of every document. B. On 24 February 2012 09:47, Gregor Martynus <[email protected]> wrote: > When I understand it right, `/_changes` does not return all changes, only the > ones relevant. So for example when document `my_doc` has been changed 5 > times, `/_changes?since=0` will return only one result for `"id": "my_doc"`. > > My question is: why does it return deleted docs? If I ask for everything that > changed since the beginning, I don't need to know that a document existed > that has been deleted meanwhile, do I?
