On Mar 25, 2013, at 2:35 PM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I have a database with a zillion docs that I need to empty. I just want the design docs left behind. If you delete the docs, you’ll leave behind tombstone revisions, so the database won’t strictly speaking be empty (unless you call purge afterwards.) I googled and saw some techniques that require writing code. Could I just GET the docs with curl and then PUT them? The fastest way is probably 1. Create a new database 2. GET the design docs, PUT them to the new database 3. Delete the old database However you’ll be left with a database with a different name. I don’t think there is any API to rename a database. —Jens
