pouchdb-http: unmaintained

[ronag]

When running i live changes feed using the http adaptor there seem to be a memory leak here, https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb/blob/master/packages/node_modules/pouchdb-adapter-http/src/index.js#L1009

Looks like the http adapter will default to return_docs: true even when running in "live" mode which means that it will eventually run out of memory.

[ronag]

db
  .changes({
    since: seq || 'now',
    live: true
  })
  .on('change', change => o.next(change))
  .on('error', err => o.error(err))

[ronag]

The problem is we are using pouchdb-http which is no longer maintained... this problem is fixed in PouchDB 7.

That's going to be a problem going forwards...

[seigel]

Ideas on fixes? Is the path going forward replacing pouchdb-http with something else or find a maintainer of pouchdb-http?

[ronag]

Is it possible to add a deprecation warning to the package?

[AGrzes]

pouchdb-http contains 2 lines of code

module.exports = require('pouchdb-core')
  .plugin(require('pouchdb-adapter-http'))

and 2 dependecnies

    "pouchdb-adapter-http": "^6.0.3",
    "pouchdb-core": "^6.0.3"

so reproducing those 2 lines of code inside Your project but using PouchDB 7 would be a solution.

Essentially follow instructions on this page.

[ronag]

@AGrzes: Yes, we don't use this package anymore. However, other people might be using it, thinking they have the latest version of pouch not knowing this package is no longer maintained.

We were very surprised why we were seeing old bugs until we realized that this package wasn't on pouch 7.x.

[AGrzes]

@ronag You are right - and I believe @nolanlawson is both maintainer of the package github repository and collaborator on the npm package so can we please get deprecation warning

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[NotMoni]

You can’t close a issue that’s a problem

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