I've put together a patch for indexing views in external processes. The patch is in github at [1], an example indexer using Lucene is at [2], and a short description is at [3]. Anyone feel like poking at it and see if anything breaks?
Paul [1] http://github.com/davisp/couchdb/tree/index_server [2] http://github.com/davisp/couchdb-lucene/tree/view_indexer [3] http://www.davispj.com/posts/couchdb-view-indexing.html
