Re: Using CouchDB as a file system server side

Large files in the DB didn't work well for us, either. We ended up putting together a solution where we stored large files on the file server and simply associated them with documents in different databases. We used nginx upfront to forward the normal CouchDB attachment requests to our server

Re: global changes feed?

On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Pedro Teixeira wrote: > Hi Alexander, > > From the docs it looks like this endpoint simply returns creations, > deletions and updates of databases. > What I’m looking for are changes in *records* inside and across all > databases... > I believe this

Re: CouchDB Replica Size

Did you try compacting the target database? Dave Westerman schrieb am Fr., 9. Okt. 2015 um 23:55: > Why would a new target replica of a CouchDB database be over twice the > size in the filesystem as the source database after the replication is > finished? I have a

Re: DB only replies to 1k HTTP connections

Hi Florin, Have you read back the actual state of the couch server as you are doing these tests, e.g. via the _stats interface? ( http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/api/server/common.html#stats) This could help you investigate further, e.g., where couch is topping out. There's also a nice munin

Re: Hide all _all_docs and _changes

Hi Jim, I don't know of a way to do this using simply couchdb. Probably the best (standard?) way to ensure that only the pieces of the API are available which you want is to use a reverse proxy, e.g. nginx. Indeed, it is much easier and safer to explicitly turn on the things you want, then to

Passing seq_num to filter replication?

Hi all, We have databases that are full of time-based information (e.g. measurements being saved) and would like to be able to partially replicate the databases. I know this can be done with normal filter functions (we do this already), but this requires running over all documents which can be

Re: Passing seq_num to filter replication?

4, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Alexander Shorin kxe...@gmail.com wrote: You can specify replication start sequence with since_seq field with the request to /_replicate or in _replicator doc. Is this what you're looking for? -- ,,,^..^,,, On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Mike Marino mmar...@gmail.com

Re: Why are temp views so much faster than design docs?

Hi Alexander, On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Alexander Shorin kxe...@gmail.com wrote: As for btree, it allows to deduplicate map functions result. Say, you need to apply different reduce functions onto the same map function. You'll create two views with the same maps and different reduces.

Re: Why it

Hi, why do you say it is a 'mistake' to emit doc from a view? I do have views that get some param and return the resulting doc(s). E.g.: map|:|function(doc) {if(doc.startDate !doc.disabled) {emit(doc.startDate, doc);}} Perhaps it's more correct to say unnecessary. You can

Re: _changes heartbeat not working via ajax call

Hi Garren, Your Ajax call won't return any data until it has finished/succeeded. This doesn't play well with the changes feed, which keeps the connection open and is streaming data. Can you use the eventsource protocol instead? (If not, see [1].) This built-in library does a lot of the work

Re: OS process timed out

It seems to be happening in the _users validation function when PUTing new users (at least this seems to be the only indication I see), but it's not clear to me that there's any other exercising of the query server through, e.g., view building. Are you sure that the javascript query server is

Re: Filtering Documents

Another option is to enable multirange-queries in the CouchDB. I know many people asking for them and there is existing a plugin/patch for - but there ends my knowledge. Maybe someone can help with a link. This should already be available in the master branch and should be available in 2.0:

Re: Email statistiscs : using reduce for uniques

Hi Gijs, I admit, it's a little bit difficult to follow what you want to do, mainly because it's not clear how you want your data to get aggregated. Instead of providing your code, can you provide your expected set of keys for a non-reduced view and how you want it to reduce down to at the end?

Re: keys is null message when a view is performed on many docs

Hi Luca, You have to handle the case when rereduce is true (and keys will then be null). See e.g. http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Introduction_to_CouchDB_views#Reduce_Functions Cheers, Mike On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Luca Morandini lmorand...@ieee.org wrote: Folks, I wrote a view to

Re: Post Insert Validation

Hi Conor, On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Conor Mac Aoidh conormacao...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I was previously using the validate_doc_update function for document validation. However, now I need to be able to change the contents of a document if it is invalid. validate_doc_update

Re: Post Insert Validation

documents - write a daemon to listen for these inserts via the changes feed. This daemon could be run automatically by couch at startup (e.g. via os_daemon configuration). - Handle the updates to the documents with this daemon. Cheers, Mike Thanks Conor On 26/09/14 10:02, Mike Marino wrote: Hi

Re: Post Insert Validation

That's likely the solution I'll go for. I'll insert documents with a 'validation' field set to 0. Then have a process watching for changes and get it to validate the documents, mark them as validated. You probably don't even need to explicitly set another field. Just write your view to

Workarounds for multipart/related ordering

Hi all, PUTs of documents with attachments using multipart/related associate the attachments based upon the ordering of the submitted JSON in the _attachment dictionary. (This has been noted as an issue here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1521 , but not yet addressed for the past

Re: Fun with dates on CouchDB 1.5.0 and 1.5.1

Hi Luca, I have not personally seen this and we certainly use Date parsing in our views, though it's possible we jumped over 1.5.1 and went straight to 1.6(.1). Perhaps a few things to try to shed some more light here. What do the couchjs executables look like on each system? That is:

Re: Fun with dates on CouchDB 1.5.0 and 1.5.1

sure the produced couchjs executable correctly links against the spidermonkey libraries. If you go through all those steps and it's still not working, we can try to debug further. Cheers, Mike On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Luca Morandini lmorand...@ieee.org wrote: On 25/09/14 01:14, Mike

Re: Broken installation on Ubuntu 14.04?

Hi Daniel, Well, that seems to look ok. You can run couchjs from the command line without any problems? Could you send the log file output when you call the view (best to use friendpaste, gist, etc. for large amounts of text)? Cheers, Mike On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Daniel Gonzalez

Re: Get a harmless error everytime a document is created in couchdb using python-cloudant

Hi Rhadika, I believe this was fixed with this commit: https://api.github.com/repos/cloudant-labs/cloudant-python/commits/04609664e32f330a781bfb7a11a198f66980e30a The current version is 0.5.9, can you try upgrading and running your code again? mgm Am 30.07.2014 um 19:28 schrieb Ramanadham,

Re: Which view is better optimized ?

Multiple views also allows you to split them across design documents, which means they can be built independently and in parallel. On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Jens Alfke j...@couchbase.com wrote: On Jul 22, 2014, at 2:51 AM, Landry Soules landry.soules...@gmail.com wrote: My question

Re: Which view is better optimized ?

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Tito Ciuro tci...@mac.com wrote: Is it better then to define a view per design doc then? If I have say, 8 views for a given person design doc, would you place them in one single doc or break them into smaller units? I think that probably heavily depends on

Re: exit_status,127 when creating admin user

Can you use couchjs at all? That is, if you simply try running couchjs from the command line, what do you see? This could be a problem that couchjs can't find the necessary libraries (the path isn't set correctly, etc., see e.g. http://bit.ly/1pirqAI ). Cheers, Mike On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at

Re: CouchDB returning data filtered by userCtx.name

Hi Martin, list functions give you access to the userCtx object and can allow you to prepare the results of a view based upon a particular user. See, e.g. http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/transforming.html However, you will still need to limit access to other pieces of the database (using e.g.

Re: Question in viewings

Am 16.06.2014 um 12:29 schrieb Pieter van der Eems p.van.der.e...@interactiveblueprints.nl: The problem you encounter here has to do with javascript. Javascript does not allow you to do doc.123. It will allow you to access the 123 of doc by using the alternate syntax: +1 I'll only add it

Re: Couchdb installation issue

Hi Sagu, As Dave says, some more details would be helpful. Also, if you can, I would suggest using a binary package system. That being said, I suspect this would be resolved by doing what the error message suggests, namely recompiling with the flag -fPIC. In spidermonkey's case, there is no

Re: running views return nothing with couchdb1.5.1

Hi Radhika, You're right, _stats doesn't return the average directly, but it returns e.g. the following JSON information: ... {sum: 33772.231, count: 1344, min: 25.064, max: 25.166, sumsqr: 848634.685281} ... You can calculate the average in user software with sum/count. I'm am pretty sure you

Re: running views return nothing with couchdb1.5.1

Hi Radhika, What does the server status say in futon? (i.e. does it note that the views are building or not?) One side comment, the reduce functions that you posted will likely not do what you expect when a rereduce is run. I would suggest using _stats (preferable solution,

Re: running views return nothing with couchdb1.5.1

, Radhika radhika.ramanad...@emc.com: Thanks Mike. I will clean up my reduce functions once I get this resolved. Reg the issue: I am not sure where to look if views are building or not. On the other hand, on couchdb server 1.5.0, I see the results: -Original Message- From: Mike

Re: running views return nothing with couchdb1.5.1

- From: Mike Marino [mailto:mmar...@gmail.com mmar...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 10:32 AM To: user@couchdb.apache.org Subject: Re: running views return nothing with couchdb1.5.1 Hi Radhika, What does the server status say in futon? (i.e. does it note that the views are building

Re: running views return nothing with couchdb1.5.1

Hi Rhadika, Do any of your views work on the 1.5.1 box? Is your couchjs process dying when the views are running? (I've seen this due to libraries not being found, etc.) Again, the output of the log would be helpful on the 1.5.1 box. Cheers, Mike On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Ramanadham,

Re: running views return nothing with couchdb1.5.1

, {exit_status,127}} [Wed, 21 May 2014 15:49:42 GMT] [error] [0.3093.3] OS Process Error 0.17182.143 :: {os_process_error, {exit_status,127}} -Original Message- From: Mike Marino

Re: running views return nothing with couchdb1.5.1

file: No such file or directory lglod078:/var/log/couchdb # -Original Message- From: Mike Marino [mailto:mmar...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 11:59 AM To: user@couchdb.apache.org Subject: Re: running views return nothing with couchdb1.5.1 Ok, that could indeed

Re: running views return nothing with couchdb1.5.1

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Ramanadham, Radhika radhika.ramanad...@emc.com wrote: I generally do a zypper install couchdb from the below repo which couchdb server built for suse linux enterprise 11, sp3. zypper addrepo

Re: Socket Error While Working

Hi Behrad, Could it be that your system is trying to stop/restart your couch service at this 5 sec interval? There was a thread about this a few weeks ago where the problem was that the system was stopping and restarting couch, but couch was not properly getting stopped. See e.g. here for the

update_seq different in view query vs design-doc/_info?

Hi all, I have a question regarding the update_seq returned with the two methods: 1. /db/_design/ddoc/_info (in the view_index object) 2. /db/_design/ddoc/_view/view_name?update_seq=true (+ other query strings in principle) I am finding that the update_seq is not always the same

Re: using python-cloudant to connect to couchDB

would be well supported. Cheers Simon On Friday, 21 March 2014 at 01:29, Mike Marino wrote: Hi Andy, well - obviously I am wrong. I am sorry. Thanks for your example Mike. I think Radhikas question is very well answered then :) No problem, I probably should've sent the gist

Re: CouchDB load spike (even with low traffic)?

Hi Marty, It's difficult for me to tell the reason that couchdb is not stopping using your init script, but we had a similar issue that I fixed by patching the couchdb startup script (executable). The issue was that the 'shepherd' program was respawning couch after a requested shutdown. This

Re: Installing CouchDB from Source: Problem Installing SpiderMonkey1.8.5

Hi Omar, This is really a question for the SpiderMonkey list, though chances are that fixing this problem will also mean your environment will be (better) set up to build couchdb. As a caveat, I have limited experience with cygwin, but I can still tell you what that error message means.

Re: using python-cloudant to connect to couchDB

Hi radhika, Am 20.03.2014 um 17:33 schrieb Ramanadham, Radhika radhika.ramanad...@emc.com: Hi guys, I have a dumb question. Now with cloudant, how do I connect to my couchDB server (http://localhost:5984) with no username and password? All the examples I see connect to cloudant and

Re: using python-cloudant to connect to couchDB

Am 20.03.2014 um 17:41 schrieb Robert Samuel Newson rnew...@apache.org: The library exists to connect you to cloudant, which is a remote service. :) While this is true, it also works plenty well to connect to any couchdb instance. We've switched to using it and I've found the interface

Re: using python-cloudant to connect to couchDB

But, I see they say its an interface for cloudant or couchDB Absolutely, see my last email about passing the uri to Account. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cloudant/0.5.6 -Original Message- From: Mike Marino [mailto:mmar...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 12:58 PM

Re: using python-cloudant to connect to couchDB

this module to connect to our local couchdb databases. Please have a look at http://couchdbkit.org/ and https://code.google.com/p/couchdb-python Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: Mike Marino [mailto:mmar...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 12:58 PM To: user

Re: using python-cloudant to connect to couchDB

. Please have a look at http://couchdbkit.org/ and https://code.google.com/p/couchdb-python Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: Mike Marino [mailto:mmar...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 12:58 PM To: user@couchdb.apache.org Subject: Re: using python-cloudant

Re: using python-cloudant to connect to couchDB

page: https://github.com/cloudant-labs/cloudant-python/issues/25 Cheers, Mike Cheers Andy On 20 March 2014 20:30, Mike Marino mmar...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a gist demonstrating using the cloudant module connecting to a local couchdb: https://gist.github.com/mgmarino/9526872 Cheers

Re: confused about date parsing

Am 29.01.2014 um 23:45 schrieb Jens Alfke j...@couchbase.com: Has anyone thought of modifying the JS global bindings when a map function runs, such that calling Date.new will throw an exception? Preferably an exception with a descriptive message like It is illegal to use the current date

Re: Replication without IP connection

This is an interesting problem. Aaron, can you say something more about what sorts of data transfer you have at all? (USB stick/hard drive transfer through the mail?) Do you only do one-way replication? We have had to do such data transfers for our experiment, but not for isolated DBs.

Re: Replication without IP connection

Am 27.01.2014 um 19:05 schrieb Jens Alfke j...@couchbase.com: what sorts of data transfer you have at all? He already said: HF Radio. What about: Remote system A, Central System B 1. Make A read-only, copy database file to intermediate A_1 He already said they don't have the bandwidth

Re: Replication without IP connection

If you absolutely must use the network transfer, and are looking to do something special to the data between points (ie before the data traverses the network), netcat is an excellent tool for patching together protocols/operating on the data. You might find something there which could help you

Re: External access to couchdb

Can you see the couchdb server from your PC at all, i.e. using ping/nmap/telnet? nmap [couchdb_server_address] telnet [couchdb_server_address] 5984 On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Jordi Cabré jeu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I'm trying to get access from an external PC to my

Re: CouchDB: Timestamp inaccurate and seems to be cached

It's not exactly clear what you would like to do. Do you just want to get the timestamp as seen by the couchdb server? What you are doing here is writing a view, the results of which will only be regenerated if a new document has been inserted between a previous query and the current query. On

Re: Simplest path from couch to C?

Hey Dan, As an option, see pillowtalk started by jubos over on github. It uses yajl as the back end and, though it's tedious to do in C, it is relatively straightforward to deal with. This doesn't make it *automatic* (I don't think that would be possible in C given the strong-typedness of the

Re: Debian init script stop/restart does not work

, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Robert Newson rnew...@apache.org wrote: That would be great! On 22 November 2013 14:55, Mike Marino mmar...@gmail.com wrote: I have definitely had a similar issue, and had to fix the script myself ( We use a CRUX distribution, so everything was built from scratch

Re: Considering CouchDB

There are, of course, ways to get couchdb to update views dependent on writes. I also believe this is supposed to get easier in the future (included in the bigcouch merge?). Am 20.11.2013 um 23:46 schrieb Simon Metson si...@cloudant.com: Nope, views are updated on read, hence the blocking

Re: Considering CouchDB

any automatic view updating scheduler. Nothing stops someone contributing one, of course. B. On 20 November 2013 22:49, Mike Marino mmar...@gmail.com wrote: There are, of course, ways to get couchdb to update views dependent on writes. I also believe this is supposed to get easier

Re: CouchDB: POST Data with Update Handler

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Hank Knight hknight...@gmail.com wrote: I understand that I can pass information using an update handler like this: http://127.0.0.1:5984/my_database/_design/my_designdoc/_update/in-place-query/mydocId?field=titlevalue=test Is there a way to use POST data with

Re: CouchDB: POST Data with Update Handler

\];} } } I call it like this: curl -k -u uiimv...@sharklasers.com:password123 -X PUT https://zuhqtr5.couchappy.com/testupdates/_design/time2id/_update/u/ -d '{hello: world, number: 23}' -H Content-Type: application/json On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Mike Marino mmar...@gmail.com wrote

Re: decimal and builtin _sum function

Hi Pedro, On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Pedro Narciso García Revington p.reving...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I want to sum decimals with the builtin _sum function. My documents look like { _id: 7a2c5e50dfeb1341d02aa27c7a05f629, _rev: 4-482ff2f6b6e5c2aa079e3e4114d02093, type:

Re: decimal and builtin _sum function

To answer the original question, _sum can only sum numbers, it does not understand numbers inside strings. The way I understood the OP's question was that he had correctly, following the error message, converted to using numbers instead of strings, but then didn't understand the obtained

Re: decimal and builtin _sum function

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Pedro Narciso García Revington p.reving...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I'm dealing with money but also with micro decrements (cost per impression on ads). So my decrements are going to be like 0.000123. I think what I'm going to do is to sum them before push them

Re: show/list

The quote from the slide is: To me, SHOW/LIST is ugly and should probably be deprecated. She was simply expressing her opinion, not the status of show/list. On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Mark Deibert mark.deib...@gmail.com wrote: Yes I know the dictionary definition of deprecate. However,

Re: how to make lists/shows more awesomer

[1] https://twitter.com/SaraMG/status/40048632928258 [2] http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wsdatap/v6r0m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.dp.xb.doc%2Fjson_jsonxconversionexample.html Simply. Awesome.

Re: Storage limitations?

Hi Mark, On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Mark Deibert mark.deib...@gmail.com wrote: Each comment is normally a very small amount of information, and id, userName, a date and a small text field. Probably no more than a short sentence on average. Why do I need to go through the trouble of

Re: Automatic Date

Hi Ashraf, Your best bet is to use document update functions written by you that will fill this field for you: http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/ddocs.html#update-functions http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Document_Update_Handlers When posting/putting a new document, it means you have to post/put

Re: Automatic Date

Hi Ashraf, Right, so to use this functionality you should set up your update document function to add a date field (you can get now time if this is good enough) and your mail app should POST/PUT the document to the update document url (examples in the links I sent). The exact format you save

Re: How to implement system hooks

the list function (rewrite, mod_rewrite, etc.). Cheers, Mike On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Thorsten Scherler scher...@gmail.comwrote: On 09/23/2013 06:50 PM, Mike Marino wrote: Hi Thorsten, I believe you're asking how to implement read/write permissions on a database, but I'm a little

Re: How to implement system hooks

Hi Thorsten, I believe you're asking how to implement read/write permissions on a database, but I'm a little bit confused by your subject. If this is so, the normal way is to use validate_doc_update functions in a design document, e.g.:

Re: Map view

Hi Rana, It looks like your problem is mainly in using cocoa. As a general suggestion, we have been very successful using yajl-objc to parse/deal with json. As a more particular set of suggestions, I would: 1. Boil down your problem to the most basic issue that you don't understand. In your

Re: Erlang vs JavaScript

I've seen some reasonably good performance gains writing the views in erlang instead of javascript (5-10 times faster), I suspect this must depend strongly on what's being done though in the view calculation. One thing that might be important to consider is the amount of time it takes to develop

Re: Couchdb service script does not stop the service

Yes, there's a heartbeat process that restarts the server if it dies (or is killed). Try ps -ef | grep couch and you should see the heartbeat process. Cheers, Mike On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Andrey Kuprianov andrey.koupria...@gmail.com wrote: I tried killing beam, but it was

Auto-update views using os_daemon

Hi all, I was looking for a clean way to auto-update views (e.g. after a certain number of document inserts) while avoiding running cron jobs. I chose to use an os_daemon script since this ties the daemon explicitly to couch, meaning I can stop and start couch and ensure that this script starts

Re: Auto-update views using os_daemon

notification examples? http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Example%20usages%20of%20DbUpdateNotification Python version is not very clean, but the idea is the same. -- ,,,^..^,,, On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Mike Marino mmar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I was looking for a clean way