On Jul 3, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Patrick Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dynamically added, or 'temporary' views are really only meant for testing, > and on small datasets. Don't use them. You mean the one-shot _temp_view. But there's no reason the app couldn't create bona fide views in a design doc if it wanted to. These would persist and be as efficient as any other. > Views are defined in the design document beforehand, yes, but a single > couchdb view is much more flexible and customisable than an SQL query. Yeah; a view is more like a SQL index, that makes many different queries possible at runtime. --Jens
