Just to mention there is also a update_seq query option, which instructs
CouchDB to include a update_seq value in the view response, indicating
which sequence id of the database the view reflects. [1]
This comes in handy in a situation where you are interested in future
changes of a view.

g jo

[1] http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_view_API#Querying_Options

On 06/20/2012 06:42 PM, Robert Newson wrote:
> Do GET /dbname and the return JSON blob should have the current sequence 
> under the update_seq key.
>
> B.
>
> On 20 Jun 2012, at 17:30, Daniel Gonzalez wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am subscribing to the _changes API. My database is quite big, and each
>> time I restart my client, I get all old notifications. I only need the new
>> notifications, since the moment that I subscribe to the feed.
>>
>> I have seen that there is a "since" parameter, but this is not helping me
>> further, because I do not know what is the last document sequence number.
>> So I would need one of the following:
>>
>> - a method to get the last sequence number to use as value for "since"
>> - a flag to tell the _changes API to just give me the changed *from now
>> on*. This would be the most clean solution, since it saves me a request to
>> get the since parameter (which can be outdated anyway very fast). Is there
>> something like this?
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Daniel


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