Replication of deleted document

[wbi...@attic.nl]

What happens in this scenario:

1. Two peers (iPads) A and B are configured for continuous push to eachother. 

2. They are in sync and have the same version of document X.

3. Peer A goes offline.

4. Peer B deletes document X (not purged)

5. After an hour A comes back online.

Is the deleted document now pushed from B to A ?

This implies that deleted documents (at least their metadata) are stored 'forever', correct ?

Thanks,

Willem

[Bart Arribe]

The document should be pushed to A, Basically, when you delete a document, it creates a new revision of this document with the attribute _deleted = true.

Bart

[Jens Alfke]

On May 20, 2014, at 12:26 AM, wbi...@attic.nl wrote:

Is the deleted document now pushed from B to A ?

Yes. A deletion is really just a special revision where the body includes the property “_deleted”:true (and usually nothing else.)

This implies that deleted documents (at least their metadata) are stored 'forever', correct ?

Yes. The previous revision’s body will be deleted the next time the database is compacted, but the revision tree metadata remains.

If you want to get rid of all traces of a document locally, you’ll need to purge it.

—Jens