Thanks for the quick reply! Jason Gordon | Principal | A S S U R E B R I D G E Office: +1 888 409 6995 | Mobile: +1 978 885 6102 | Fax: +1 888 409 6995 Email: [email protected]
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Robert Samuel Newson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jason, > > couchdb has to pass all the updates to the javascript function. There's no > way to know ahead of time that the function won't call emit. > > Each document is marshalled to an external process (couchjs) and the > response returned, and it's done sequentially (you get parallelism on this > in couchdb 2.0 though). > > B. > > > On 20 Jun 2017, at 20:03, Jason Gordon <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > When performing a bulk update, how much time should I expect for view > > generation for views that do not index the documents that I am updating? > > > > For example: > > > > I have a single view which is the only view in the design document. The > > view has the map function > > > > if (doc.type == 'Foo') { > > emit(doc.name, doc.age); > > } > > > > > > and no reduce function. > > > > I then add 8000 documents where doc.type == 'Bar' > > > > When I access the view the first time , it takes about 7 to 8 seconds to > > generate even though nothing is emitted. Of course, subsequent accesses > to > > the view are much faster. > > > > I know that I can mitigate by querying the view after adding every couple > > of hundred documents but it surprises me that a generate takes this long > > when all that is happening is an if-condition being checked. > > > > Is this to be expected or is there a better way to structure the view? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jason > >
