I think this will not add much to the conversation. But I wrote up my investigation of how couch figures out revision lengths when reading documents.
https://gist.github.com/jhs/1577159 @Noah, this is the sort of thing I put into Gist instead of the Wiki due to all the wiki paper cuts. On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 31, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Paul Davis <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > So the thing to point out is the documentation that Jens found is lying. > > revs_limit is the depth limit, it doesn't limit the total number of > > revisions. > > Oh — I hadn’t realized that from Dale’s description. And I just got > through implementing it [in the Couchbase Sync Gateway] as an actual number > of revisions. Should be easy enough to change, though. > > —Jens
