janl described this idea to me last week at SXSW. You create a new design/views, and wait for it to finish indexing, then use HTTP COPY to replace the original design with the newly-indexed design.
David On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirk...@ochtman.nl> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 19:05, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.da...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Also of note is that the updates are grouped at the _design/doc level, >>> so if you want to update some subset of views individually you just >>> need to split them amongst a set of _design/docs. There's also a >>> scheme that lets you create a temporary _design/doc that can be moved >>> over top of the existing version to have quickly updated views, but >>> this approach requires you to have the disk capacity to have both >>> versions built on disk simultaneously. >> >> Is that scheme documented anywhere? It sounds useful, but I'm not >> exactly sure how I'd go about doing that. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dirkjan >> > > I don't know if its been written up anywhere, but the basic idea is > that you just create a copy of the design doc, update it with new > code, build the indexes and move it back to the original docid. >
