[OSM-dev] Alternative PostgreSQL Schema

[Steve Coast]

On 25 Oct 2007, at 09:29, Tom Hughes wrote:

> In message <D1966CCD-483C-41DB-A121-D0E609B9DBDF at asklater.com>
>         Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>
>> On 24 Oct 2007, at 16:46, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/24/07, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
>>>>> If it were possible to undelete things, then clients could do
>>>>> rollbacks without asking the server...
>>>>
>>>> Being able to roll back individual changes is of limited value
>>>> though as it would be so fiddly. Really you to be able to see an
>>>> entire group of changes and roll them all back if you want to deal
>>>> with vandalism and things.
>>>
>>> While I agree that would also be useful, AFAICT we're light-years  
>>> away
>>> from that, whereas undelete can be implemented and be useful  
>>> quickly.
>>> Both have their place...
>>
>> I'm confused, you used to be able to undelete with a PUT to /api/0.4/
>> node/1 etc?
>
> I'm not sure you ever could in the rails version? You certainly can't
> at the moment as you will get a "410 Gone" response. I can easily
> allow it though if you think it should be possible.

Yes, it was cetainly intended that way...

have fun,

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