On Jan 30, 2013, at 10:06 AM, Stephen Bartell <[email protected]> wrote:
> This seems like a huge improvement! Replicating with filters always bothered > me because a first time replication would need to traverse the entire > database. Not to mention the timeout issues which could occur if the db is > massive. I just figured it was a necessary evil. I agree. Some users of TouchDB have been having performance problems doing filtered pulls from upstream CouchDB databases, for this reason. Filtered replication is important for mobile clients because they may not have the bandwidth or storage space to replicate an entire server-side database. Is there any chance this feature will be folded back into the main CouchDB source tree? —Jens
