Matthias Eck wrote: > One of my databases in CouchDB has close to 1,000,000 documents with a > size of about 200GB. > If I change one of the views, the indexing takes about 2 hours. > > This time would be not a problem, but I am wondering why I cannot > access the other views, that were previously generated during the > indexing time. > Currently none of the views is available, taking my web application > down during this time. > > Is there a parameter that can be adjusted to allow view access during > indexing?
I suggest adding an updated design document under a new name, run the view indexing on that one and switching over the design document to the production location afterwards. See http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/How_to_deploy_view_changes_in_a_live_environment for some more details. Nils. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VPRO www.vpro.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------
