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[Stuart Langridge <stuart.langridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/29/2010 09:09 AM, skynexus wrote:
> According to the FAQ, all CouchDB databases are synchronized by default:
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/FAQ#CouchDB
> 
> Can you please clarify what this means? If I want to work with CouchDB
> and create my own databases, I would *not* expect nor want them to be
> synchronized with Ubuntu One.
> 
>>From what I surmise, Ubuntu One uses its own instance of CouchDB, and if
> I decide to install the "couchdb" package (not installed by default it
> seems), a completely separate CouchDB (having *nothing* to do with
> Ubuntu One) would be available to me. Is this a correct assumption?

That is correct. Databases created in *desktopcouch* are synchronized by
default. Databases created in a system CouchDB (the one running on port
5984, by default, and not installed by default) are not synchronized at all.

sil