Hey Michal, you don't want to reset the update_seq. You want to get rid of old documents. The only way to achieve this, is to set _revs_limit and run compaction.
http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_database_API#Accessing_Database-specific_options best Sebastian On 30.06.2010, at 03:21, Michal Suchanek wrote: > I am running couchdb 0.11 on mac os x in a development environment. I have > about 50,000 documents which I have migrated from a mysql db. In the course > of migration, I have deleted and reimported this data about 15 times and now > the update_seq on the database is around 900,000. Now, when I add new views > (or modify current ones), the build takes forever as it checkpoints against > all of the previous (now-deleted) revisions of each document. I get nearly > 1M lines of "checkpointing view update at seq 132299 for"... (where the seq > goes to nearly 900k). > > I am not replicating this db at this time and have no need for old revision > stubs etc. I just want to be able to build views against existing documents > and discard the old revision data (and metadata)! > > I have tried db compaction, view cleanup, and view compaction several times. > Nothing seems to make a difference and new views seem to checkpoint at every > or every second update_seq. This takes quite a while. > > What am I missing? > -- > View this message in context: > http://couchdb-development.1959287.n2.nabble.com/any-way-to-clear-a-huge-update-seq-tp5237014p5237014.html > Sent from the CouchDB Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
