OK that was exactly the answer I was looking for. Many thanks. On Feb 25, 2014 12:58 AM, "Robert Samuel Newson" <rnew...@apache.org> wrote:
> > _all_docs and _changes are both updated (atomically) as part of every > document update. Updating those two things is what it *means* to update a > document. > > I hesitate to call it a "view" though, since it's the database itself just > rendered in the same format as views. You could think of it as "primary > index" vs "secondary index". > > B. > > > On 25 Feb 2014, at 06:59, Stanley Iriele <siriele...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > is the All docs a special view?...it never has to be primed like > > traditional views. why is that?...if a use a list function to fold over a > > certain number of keys during a period of a lot of writes does this view > > stay up to date ? or does it behave like a regular view? > >