18:54:28 <ruel> barney_: there is no such thing, but compaction will remove the data when couchdb gets around to it. The deleted document "tombstone" will remain. (This is so deletions can be synchronized throughout a cluster.)
18:55:01 <ruel> Ysean: it's primarily a hope/expectation because of Kazoocon this year coming up. Hopefully they make the announcement then. We shall see.