Can I delete data from my local pouchDB without the delete replicating to couchDB

Question

Is there a way I can clear down the data in my local pouchDB without the changes being replicated to the online couchDB.

I am currently using the db.sync function with live: true

The context for this is I have lots of users entering orders in an offline first environment and would like to cleardown the data every few days to keep the application quick but new lose the orders from couchDB

Answer 1

Unfortunately not, there is a long running open issue for purge @ https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb/issues/802 which would do what you want, but it has not been implemented yet.

What is your use case, are you doing a 2 way sync and seeing remote updates locally or are you only doing push replication to send the orders? One way to work around this is to periodically create a fresh database locally that only contains the orders you care about.