[GitHub] oliverdain commented on a change in pull request #252: Suggested edit to make clear what a quorum actually represents.

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oliverdain commented on a change in pull request #252: Suggested edit to make clear what a quorum actually represents.
URL: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-documentation/pull/252#discussion_r171647414
 
 

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 File path: src/cluster/theory.rst
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 @@ -34,10 +34,17 @@ thereby override the defaults in ``default.ini``.
 
 The number of copies of a document with the same revision that have to be read
 before CouchDB returns with a ``200`` is equal to a half of total copies of
-the document plus one. It is the same for the number of nodes that need to
-save a document before a write is returned with ``201``. If there are less
-nodes than that number, then ``202`` is returned. Both read and write numbers
-can be specified with a request as ``r`` and ``w`` parameters accordingly.
+the document plus one *in the current partition*. That is, if there is a network
 
 Review comment:
   I was trying to describe a network partition. Specifically, here I'm trying to say that if there's a network partition then the quorum is relative to only the subset of nodes on the side of the partition where the client is.
   
   Definitely open to different wording if this is confusing.

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