How does "local_seq" design doc option work?

[Jens Alfke <je...@couchbase.com>]

Could someone explain the "local_seq" design doc option? I've had a request to implement it in TouchDB, but I don't know what it does. The only info about it I can find is the Jira issue COUCHDB-346*, which describes adding that property to the "options" object of a design doc, but it doesn't say what exactly it does. There's no link to a patch, either.

I've experimented by adding this option to a design doc in CouchDB 1.2, but no matter how I query the view — like adding "?include_docs=true&update_seq=true&local_seq=true" to the URL — I don't see sequence numbers appearing in the response.

As usual, I promise to add what I've learned to the CouchDB wiki. :)

—Jens

* https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-346

Re: How does "local_seq" design doc option work?

[Jim Klo <ji...@sri.com>]

:-)

https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/1.2.x/share/www/script/test/design_options.js


Jim Klo
Senior Software Engineer
Center for Software Engineering
SRI International
t.	@nsomnac

On Aug 9, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:

> Could someone explain the "local_seq" design doc option? I've had a request to implement it in TouchDB, but I don't know what it does. The only info about it I can find is the Jira issue COUCHDB-346*, which describes adding that property to the "options" object of a design doc, but it doesn't say what exactly it does. There's no link to a patch, either.
> 
> I've experimented by adding this option to a design doc in CouchDB 1.2, but no matter how I query the view — like adding "?include_docs=true&update_seq=true&local_seq=true" to the URL — I don't see sequence numbers appearing in the response.
> 
> As usual, I promise to add what I've learned to the CouchDB wiki. :)
> 
> —Jens
> 
> * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-346