It would be better to read through _changes than _all_docs, surely? :) B.
On 7 July 2011 10:03, Dan Sheedy <[email protected]> wrote: > oh. > > Sorry for the thread high jack. Good haircut btw, no regrets. > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Max Ogden <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >
