Hi, afaik from what I've played around nothing will break and things work as you expect them.
1. yes 2. no 3. yes 4. I think yes, it will free up space as long as the view is not being used, but the easiest is that you test it in a dev instance. As a side note, db compaction also frees a lot of space... Also, why don't you just delete the _design docs as that is the way to remove a view if you don't need it? should be matter of 2 clicks.. H ________________________________________ From: Daniel Gonzalez <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 08:14 To: [email protected] Subject: Manually deleting a _design directory Hi, I have a couchdb instance which I am no longer using for data processing. That is, I need the data to be there, but the views are no longer needed, since I have moved the data processing to another server. I would like to free the space used by the views (currently nearly 5 GB). 1. Can I simply delete the design directories? (rm -rf .*_design) 2. Will this affect the documents themselves? (I guess not, this is just view data, not document data) 3. Can I do this in a running couchdb instance? 4. Will this really free-up disk space, or does couchdb keep view file handles open, so that a restart is needed? I understand that doing so will still leave the _design documents in the databases, and that triggering those documents will recreate the views, but I am not concerned about this at this moment: I just want to quickly free-up some disk space. Thanks! Daniel Gonzalez
