On 2 June 2012 00:09, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 1, 2012, at 2:12 PM, Matthias Eck wrote: > >> I noticed that a very small number of documents in my database have >> 1000 revisions, which somehow prevents them from being updated again. > > I'm pretty sure CouchDB doesn't have any limit on the number of revisions of > a document. Perhaps the API/library you're using to access it has a bug that > breaks with 4-digit revision numbers? What API are you using?
There is a per-DB limit, _revs_limit, http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_database_API. Hopefully somebody will can explain exactly the significance of this, wrt to replication, stemming, compaction etc. A+ Dave
