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[Couchdb Wiki] Update of "HTTP Document API" by PeterMonks

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  === Modify Multiple Documents With a Single Request ===
  
- CouchDB provides a bulk insert/update feature. To use this, you make a ''POST'' request to the URI ''/{dbname}/_bulk_docs'', with the request body being a JSON document containing a list of new documents to be inserted or updated. The bulk post is a transactional operation - all updates/insertions succeed, or all fail. 
+ CouchDB provides a bulk insert/update feature. To use this, you make a ''POST'' request to the URI ''/{dbname}/_bulk_docs'', with the request body being a JSON document containing a list of new documents to be inserted or updated. The bulk post is currently (0.8.0) a transactional operation - all updates/insertions succeed, or all fail - but that behaviour may change in future (see http://n2.nabble.com/couchdb-transactions-changes-td2289541.html for more information).
  
  Doc formats below are as per CouchDB 0.8.0.