Github user davisp commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-couch/pull/229 That was a really confusing description in hindsight... Consider it this way: what you're changing could easily be written as a custom reduce function in JavaScript. The only difference between the two is that one is in Erlang and there's some goop about aliasing the implementation with a "_name". That's it. And given that we know that reduce functions can return whatever they want we know that there's no reason that we have to change anything related to chttpd or fabric or invent changes to the worker protocol that's sending messages around.
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