On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:58 AM, till <t...@php.net> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I've tested this a couple times with smaller database and so far, I > always had to rebuild my views when I updated a server from 0.9.x to > 0.10.0. And I also had that confirmed (by some of you). ;-) > > Now my problem is the following -- last time I build the view on the > database, it took a week to finish, literally 7.5 days. The view code > itself is pretty simple, but the database contains a 160,000,000 > documents and totals to ~200 GB in size. With a set of this magnitude, > I'd like to avoid another week. I'd even like to avoid 3-4 days (even > though I'm a fan, I don't think it's twice as fast). > > So my question is if there is *any* way to avoid view rebuilding and > still updating to 0.10.x. >
The principle difference between the 0.9.x code and the 0.10.x code is the view index filename. When you update to 0.10.0, and start couchdb building the view, it will create a file named after a hash of the ddoc.views contents. If you restart the new couch, and rename the 0.9 view file to the hash name, and then start 0.10.0, there's a chance it could work. Obviously this should be tested, and perhaps Jan already tried that. There may be differences is the header format between versions that should accounted for. This part of the patch (if it is needed) will be more challenging. All in all, I'm guessing this is doable for 0.10.1, but it's not guaranteed to be easy. We can' allow this kinda thing between beta releases, and 0.10.1 is a good chance to get the 0.9 update process solid. Hope that helps, Chris ps. Damien did the 4-5x map/reduce speedup on 0.11 (current trunk), so if you're gonna do a big rebuild, that's worth looking at. Devs - what we need is a callback that modules can use to do things like rename files on upgrade. > Thanks for listening, > Till > -- Chris Anderson http://jchrisa.net http://couch.io
