Hi Norman, I took a peek at multiview. I haven't followed this too closely on the mailing list but this is *view intersection*? Is there a 5 line summary of what this does somewhere?
I'm curious as to why the daemon needs to be a supervisor, most if not all of the other daemons are gen_servers. OTP allows this but I think this is a good area where some CouchDB guidelines on plugins would apply. It strikes me that views, the use of map/reduce, etc. are one of the trickier aspects of using CouchDB, particularly for new users coming from the SQL world. People are also reporting issues with performance of views, I guess often because reduce functions go out of control. I think the project would be better served if features like this were available as plugins. I would put GeoCouch in the same category. Its very neat and timely (given everyone wants to know where everyone else is using their telephone but without talking other than asynchronously), but a server plugin architecture that would allow this to be done cleanly should come first. This is just my opinion. I'd love to see some of the project founders and committers weigh in on this and set some direction. Best regards, Bob On Aug 22, 2010, at 5:45 PM, Norman Barker wrote: > I would like to take this multiview code and have it added to trunk if > possible, what are the next steps? > > thanks, > > Norman > > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Norman Barker <norman.bar...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> I have made >> >> http://github.com/normanb/couchdb >> >> which is a fork of the latest couchdb trunk with the multiview code >> and tests added. >> >> If geocouch is available then it can still be used. >> >> There are a couple of questions about the multiview on the user /dev >> list so I will be adding some more test cases during today. >> >> thanks, >> >> Norman >> >> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Norman Barker <norman.bar...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> this is possible, I forked geocouch since I use it, but I have already >>> separated the geocouch dependencies from the trunk. >>> >>> I can do this tomorrow, certainly be interested in any feedback. >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> Norman >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Volker Mische <volker.mis...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> On 08/18/2010 03:26 AM, J Chris Anderson wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Aug 16, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Norman Barker wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> I have made the changes as recommended, adding a test case >>>>>> multiview.js and also adding the userCtx to open the db. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have also forked geocouch and this is available here >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> this patch seems important (especially as people are already asking for >>>>> help using it on user@) >>>>> >>>>> to get it committed, it either must remove the dependency on GeoCouch, or >>>>> become part of CouchDB when (and if) GeoCouch becomes part of CouchDB. >>>>> >>>>> Is it possible / useful to make a version that doesn't use GeoCouch? And >>>>> then to make the GeoCouch capabilities part GeoCouch for now? >>>>> >>>>> Chris >>>>> >>>> >>>> Hi Norman, >>>> >>>> if the patch is ready for trunk, I'd be happy to move the GeoCouch bits to >>>> GeoCouch itself (as GeoCouch isn't ready for trunk yet). >>>> >>>> Lately I haven't been that responsive when it comes to GeoCouch, but that >>>> will change (in about a month) after holidays and FOSS4G. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Volker >>>> >>> >>
