[DOCS-11378] Document that user & role management methods default write concern is majority Created: 01/Mar/18  Updated: 30/Oct/23  Resolved: 31/May/18

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: manual
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: Server_Docs_20231030

Type: Improvement Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Kevin Adistambha Assignee: Kevin Adistambha
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 0
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 Description   

The default write concern for some user & role management methods are majority. This was not mentioned in the docs, which leads to some confusion from users, since the default write concern for a replica set is w:1

This involves these user management methods:

And these role management methods:

The default write concern of majority for these methods should be explicitly mentioned in the documentation, since it deviates from expected standard behaviour.

Appendix:

  • The relevant section in the 3.6 codebase: link
  • The original ticket for adding write concern to these methods: SERVER-6246


 Comments   
Comment by Githook User [ 31/May/18 ]

Author:

{'username': 'kevinadi', 'name': 'Kevin Adistambha', 'email': 'kevinadi@gmail.com'}

Message: DOCS-11378 user and role management methods default write concern
Branch: v3.4
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/fae2672ba3ab519424420b429083ed1a02913f7d

Comment by Githook User [ 31/May/18 ]

Author:

{'username': 'kevinadi', 'name': 'Kevin Adistambha', 'email': 'kevinadi@gmail.com'}

Message: DOCS-11378 user and role management methods default write concern
Branch: v3.6
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/d923a6c65574df78eb306c44f9629e312091e82c

Comment by Githook User [ 31/May/18 ]

Author:

{'username': 'kevinadi', 'name': 'Kevin Adistambha', 'email': 'kevinadi@gmail.com'}

Message: DOCS-11378 user and role management methods default write concern
Branch: master
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/cf49dfb294ef723b43ea993937bf291e4f420d6e

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