Yeah, I'm not planning to rely on it, just a way to hint at which documents I need to look at without having to look at all documents or alter the document's structure.
Okay, I guess I'll have to figure out a different approach then... thanks. On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> wrote: > Tim, > > The couchdb revision system is to provide eventual consistency between > database replicas. It is not a user-facing document versioning system. Old > revisions are deleted during compaction and are not replicated either. > > B. > > On 26 Jul 2012, at 15:00, Tim Tisdall wrote: > >> Is it possible to access revisions through a filter? Using a filter >> on the changes log would also work for what I'd like to do. >> >> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Alexander Shorin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi Tim, >>> >>> CouchDB documents revisions aren't for versioning things[1]. To access >>> to previous document revision within view you need to store previous >>> revisions inlined within document and emit them in map function. Note, >>> that this solution promises that document size will rapidly grow over >>> time - you'll need to limit stored inlined revisions somehow. >>> >>> [1] http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Document_revisions >>> >>> -- >>> ,,,^..^,,, >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Tim Tisdall <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Is it possible to access a previous revision of a document from within >>>> a view? I'd like to output something in a view based on the >>>> difference between the revisions of the documents. >>>> >>>> -Tim >
