Steve Watanabe added a comment - 11/May/20 3:52 PM There is a trade-off of where to do the checking. In this case it is done by the handling of the REST Api (or will be when the ns_server portion of the bucket min durability level changes are merged): stevewatanabe @ ~/madhatter/install/bin $ ./couchbase-cli bucket-create --bucket ephBucket --bucket-type ephemeral --bucket-ramsize 100 --durability-min-level persistToMajority -c localhost:9000 -u Administrator -p asdasd ERROR: durability_min_level - Durability minimum level must be either 'none' or 'majority' for ephemeral buckets Architecturally it's better to do these checks as much as reasonably possible on the server side. The REST client should do minimal checking. I'd like to get Patrick Varley 's thoughts on this.

Patrick Varley added a comment - 12/May/20 3:03 AM Architecturally it's better to do these checks as much as reasonably possible on the server side. The REST client should do minimal checking. I'd like to get Patrick Varley's thoughts on this. Steve Watanabe Generally that is what we try to do, some times we break that "rule" if it makes for a better user experience. With the ns_server side in progression and the output from Steve's WIP covers this I'm going to mark this defect as closed.