| commit | c3a59aab0beabf86b496b7d568ef72b7b9136909 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Klaus Trainer <klaus_trainer@posteo.de> | Wed Aug 12 11:34:55 2015 +0200 |
| committer | Klaus Trainer <klaus_trainer@posteo.de> | Wed Aug 12 11:34:59 2015 +0200 |
| tree | 51c793c3e8ce396512127b6388314ae74968abab | |
| parent | bb95f4a2822238735f2f2898451975448c26dfc4 [diff] |
Use predefined `ADMIN_CTX` macro See `couch/include/couch_db.hrl`.
couchdb_peruser is a CouchDB daemon that ensures that a private per-user database exists for each document in _users. These databases are writable only by the corresponding user. Databases are in the form:
userdb-{hex encoded username}
For example, the user bob will have a database named userdb-626f62.
The reason for hex encoding is that CouchDB usernames have no restrictions, but CouchDB databases have restrictions. Hex encoding the UTF-8 representation of the username is a transformation that's easy to correctly implement in just about any language, especially JavaScript and Erlang. Other encodings would be possible, but would require additional client and server-side code to support that encoding. This is the simplest scheme that is obviously correct.