On 9 Nov 2009, at 21:21, James Marca wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 02:18:08PM -0500, Adam Kocoloski wrote:
>> On Nov 9, 2009, at 2:14 PM, James Marca wrote:
>>
>>> Hi again,
>>>
>>> I thought I remembered seeing on the wiki how to clean up old views in
>>> a database, but I can't seem to find it.
>>>
>>> I have a database in which I was testing lots of variations of a
>>> map/reduce pair, and now I want to clean up the ones that I'm no
>>> longer using. Simply compacting the database didn't work. I can use
>>> filesystem commands to do so, but is there a compact_views type of
>>> command that will delete old views?
>>>
>>> my version of coucdb is
>>>
>>> {"couchdb":"Welcome","version":"0.11.0b1e2a54d1-git"}
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> James Marca
>>
>> Heh, so there is a compact views feature
>>
>> POST /dbname/_compact/designname
>>
>> but that doesn't actually clean up old versions of the view, it just
>> compacts the current one. You want
>>
>> POST /dbname/_view_cleanup
>>
>> Best, Adam
> Thanks, that did it. Can I add this to the wiki?
yes please :)
Cheers
Jan
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