On Monday, July 26, 2010, Paul Joseph Davis (JIRA) <j...@apache.org> wrote:
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> Paul Joseph Davis commented on COUCHDB-837:
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> @filipe - Awesome
> @janl - I'd agree with Simon that stale=once is too clever and could be 
> misleading.
> @Chris - okgo makes me laugh
> @Simon - So far I think this is the best proposal. There are two intentions, 
> and unless a sufficiently acceptable value for stale can be found that 
> indicates both, then I'd say two parameters is probably best
> @Chrisagain - While I agree that stale=ok was never intended to serve as a 
> way to delay index updates, I wouldn't be surprised if quite a few people are 
> using it to schedule index updates for off-peak traffic times. We could argue 
> that the default should be to reindex with a new stale=noreindex option or 
> some such though.
> @jira - I wish you didn't suck so much.
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>> Adding stale=partial
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>>                 Key: COUCHDB-837
>>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-837
>>             Project: CouchDB
>>          Issue Type: Improvement
>>         Environment: all released and unreleased versions
>>            Reporter: Filipe Manana
>>            Assignee: Filipe Manana
>>         Attachments: stale_partial.patch
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>> Inspired by Matthias' latest post, at 
>> http://www.paperplanes.de/2010/7/26/10_annoying_things_about_couchdb.html, 
>> section "Views are updated on read access", I added a new value to the 
>> "stale" option named "partial" (possibly we need to find a better name).
>> It behaves exactly like "stale=ok" but after replying to the client, it 
>> triggers a view update in the background.
>> Patch attached.
>> If no one disagrees this isn't a good feature, or suggest a better parameter 
>> value name, I'll commit.
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I like having the two params best, but calling it reindex might trick
folks into thinking it'll rebuild the whole thing.

How does stale=ok&update_index=true sound?

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