Are both versions of couchdb 0.8.0? Even if so, you might try a dump/load cycle to see if that makes things better. couchdb-python has some nice utilities for that via couchdb-dump and couchdb-load
HTH, Paul Davis On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Jason Huggins <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, all! > > Quick Question: > Is there a way to *force* CouchDB to rebuild all indexes in some > stronger way than using the HTTP API? > > Why I ask: > I'm running 0.8.0-incubating on Ubuntu (Hardy Heron). I'm trying to > move my couchdb files from an old server to a new server, using this > filesystem backup doc in the wiki as a guide. ( > http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/How_to_make_filesystem_backups ) > (Ironically, I wrote that page in the wiki, but the page history > doesn't show it!) :-) > > However, after the move, I noticed that several of my indexes (even > some "_all_docs" views are wrong and stale. (Thankfully, the actually > documents are still there, though.) I tried adding and updating new > docs, and I tried simply querying the views to trigger a rebuild of > the indexes. But so far, the indexes are still wrong. I even tried > deleting the ".<db_name>_design" directories on the filesytem. So far, > nothing has worked. Any ideas? > > -j. >
