Answered by Laurent on Couchbase forum: https://forums.couchbase.com/t/how-to-write-a-view-that-contains-orphaned-documents/5973
On Monday, November 23, 2015 at 10:22:10 AM UTC-8, N8 Sabes wrote: > > Is it possible to have a view that contains only orphaned documents? In > other words, a view that is a collection of documents that are not > referenced by any others. > > > Example: DocType="Book" is the parent with many DocType="Page" children. > How do you create a view of only those Books which have no Pages ---- > without using an array of Pages within the Book doc. > > > Normally, when the last page is deleted, the Book doc will also > automatically be deleted. *** However, if something goes wrong in the > deletion process, a background cleanup function must go find all the > orphaned books without pages and delete them. > > > How might this cleanup view be written (without using an array of pages > within the Book doc.)? > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Couchbase" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
