[jira] [Commented] (COUCHDB-576) Require current update_seq when deleting a database for extra safety.

["Dave Cottlehuber (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Dave Cottlehuber commented on COUCHDB-576:
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Futon & API clients will simply wrap this functionality in anyway so I think it's only people using cURL, right? So I'm undecided on this. I agree with the intent, I've done this myself from time to time. But what type of DELETE are we intending to prevent?

- Honey I deleted the wrong DB?
- Honey I didn't have a backup?

- futon will presumably help out and provide the seq or whatever anyway for non-thinking admins
- API clients will get updated to handle this transparently

I think requiring admin is not a bad idea, but I suspect we're only protecting a relatively small number of developers. Is there an angle in Bigcouch/cloudant that makes this much more important, aside from sheer size of DBs?

What does DROP TABLE or whatever require in an RDBMS? or "zfs destroy" etc? Any bulk store has this risk/feature.

                
> Require current update_seq when deleting a database for extra safety.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-576
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-576
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Database Core
>            Reporter: Robert Newson
>         Attachments: delete-db-safety-with-tests.patch
>
>
> Require the current update_seq before deleting a database to prevent accidental deletion.
> DELETE /db2?seq=12

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