Thanks! Unfortunately I have no dev instance at the moment. There are 20 databases with an average of 5 design documents. That is more than 2 clicks (not to talk about possible click errors)
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Sanjuan, Hector <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > afaik from what I've played around nothing will break and things work as > you expect them. > > 1. yes > 2. no > 3. yes > 4. I think yes, it will free up space as long as the view is not being > used, but the easiest is that you test it in a dev instance. > > As a side note, db compaction also frees a lot of space... > > Also, why don't you just delete the _design docs as that is the way to > remove a view if you don't need it? should be matter of 2 clicks.. > > H > > > ________________________________________ > From: Daniel Gonzalez <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 08:14 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Manually deleting a _design directory > > Hi, > > I have a couchdb instance which I am no longer using for data processing. > That is, I need the data to be there, but the views are no longer needed, > since I have moved the data processing to another server. I would like to > free the space used by the views (currently nearly 5 GB). > > 1. Can I simply delete the design directories? (rm -rf .*_design) > 2. Will this affect the documents themselves? (I guess not, this is just > view data, not document data) > 3. Can I do this in a running couchdb instance? > 4. Will this really free-up disk space, or does couchdb keep view file > handles open, so that a restart is needed? > > I understand that doing so will still leave the _design documents in the > databases, and that triggering those documents will recreate the views, but > I am not concerned about this at this moment: I just want to quickly > free-up some disk space. > > Thanks! > Daniel Gonzalez >
