you should reconsider the haircut On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Dan Sheedy <[email protected]> wrote:
> im heading off. might be late dinner. I'm getting my haircut. should be > home > 8ish. > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Patrick Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Alternatively, how about you page through _all_docs? > > > > 1. Query http://server:5984/dbname/_**all_docs?limit=100< > http://server:5984/dbname/_all_docs?limit=100> > > > > 2. Process that set. Store the id of the last document. > > > > 3. Query http://server:5984/dbname/_**all_docs?limit=100&startkey=(** > > last_id)&skip=1< > http://server:5984/dbname/_all_docs?limit=100&startkey=(last_id)&skip=1>to > get the next set. > > > > 4. Repeat 2 and 3 until the returned set is empty. > > > > If your batch processing has to be able to resume after being terminated, > > just store the last_id in a file between each set. > > > > If you documents come from a specific view, you can do that too, the only > > difference would be that 'startkey' needs to be the last record's view > key, > > and you may also need a 'startkey_docid=(last_id)' parameter if the keys > are > > not unique. > > > > -Patrick > > > > > > On 7/07/2011 9:41 AM, Matthias Eck wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I need to add a new field to all documents in my database. > >> > >> To have a better control I wanted to do this by batches and defined 2 > >> views: > >> documents_without_newfield > >> documents_with_newfield > >> > >> My idea was to just take the first 100 returned by the > >> documents_without_newfield view, calculate the new field for all of > >> them, save them and take the next 100 etc. > >> > >> As it turns out the views do not seem to be updated immediately, which > >> means that the view documents_without_newfield returns about 95 > >> documents that actually already had the new field calculated in the > >> previous step. > >> > >> Can I force the view to update immediately so I can iterate through > >> the all documents? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Matthias > >> > >> >
