[COUCHDB-217] Store Revision of Attachments

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.11
• Assignee: Paul Joseph Davis
• Reporter: Sven Helmberger
• Created: 21/Jan/09 08:43
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29
• Resolved: 22/Sep/09 20:28

Description

I'm writing some multi-app hosting thing and besides using couchdb as database it also stores all images and stylesheets and scripts etc for the applications as attachments. I have one couchdb database per app and
store all resources on a single document to keep the same relative hierarchical structure I have in my apps.

I can now fetch that document and use it to quickly find out the name, lenght and content-type of all my attachments. When the document revision changes I know that at least one of the attachments has changed, but I don't know which.

Wouldn't it be possible to store the revision in which the attachment was created with the attachment?

_attachments could then contain these revisions as additional property and couchdb could use that revision as ETag when serving the attachment content which would be better than using the documents revision like it is now.

I don't know the code, so I don't know wheter this is possible..

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: COUCHDB-259 Ability to store abitrary data in attachment stubs