AFAIR, all URL query params to couch are proper json. Just to be pedantic, shouldn't that be stale=true or stale="ok"?
K. On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Chris Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd been meaning to rename update=false to stale=ok for a while. > > The feature is very limited. When a view is called with stale=ok, if > there is currently an in-memory pointer to a completed view index, > that will be preferred over updating the view to ensure that it > reflects all database updates through the current sequence number. The > effect is slightly lower latency, in the majority of cases. > > However, if the view is not yet built, or has not been queried since > the last time CouchDB was booted, sending stale=ok as a query > parameter will have no effect. As such, I think update=false is a > misleading name, and stale=ok is more indicative of the advisory > nature of this param. > > This change was committed today in revision 736837 > > -- > Chris Anderson > http://jchris.mfdz.com >
