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Federico
Federico

Reputation: 43

CouchDB replication error: random fail with error "checkpoint_commit_failure"

Inside a PHP application I'm trying to replicate 4 DBs in and out: this is only happening with one of those replications: database's name is "people". To avoid any PHP library specific issue, I'm testing from bash running curl:

curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -X POST LOCAL_PATH/_replicate -d '{"source":"REMOTE_PATH/people","target":"LOCAL_PATH/people", "continuous":false}'

With this output:

{"error":"checkpoint_commit_failure","reason":"Error updating the source checkpoint document: conflict"}

I've checked this post, but it doesn't seem to be that, as we're using full paths for replication (both local and remote).

This happens most of the times, but not always.. Any idea???

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1511

Answers (1)

Sam Bisbee
Sam Bisbee

Reputation: 4441

CouchDB stores check points in the source database server for the last sequence id it was able to replicate. Therefore the credentials that you're using to replicate from the source server with also need write permission on the source database to write these check points.

However, this is not strictly necessary because check points are an optimization. Your docs will replicate just fine without these check points.

Upvotes: 4

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