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Subject: Re: renamed _temp_view to _slow_view
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 13:38:37 +0100
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On 8 Jan 2009, at 04:30, Antony Blakey wrote:

> On 07/01/2009, at 9:32 PM, Noah Slater wrote:
>
>> Maybe someone who understands the code issues at hand (i.e. not me)  
>> could
>> summarise the options with the pros and cons outlined by the  
>> various people in
>> this thread and we could have a small vote on each option to see if  
>> there's any
>> clear consensus that we're missing. It might be the case that we  
>> all disagree on
>> our main preference but all share a second preference.
>
> Not sure if someone is taking this task on. I'm not, but my  
> normalized votes would be:
>
> 1. Remove the _temp_view facility completely, because you can use a  
> temporary _design view, at which point you should understand the  
> performance implications, and it cleans up the code.

+1

> 2. Leave it as _temp_view, because it does the equivalent of view  
> create/query/delete view in a single POST, and you can document the  
> performance issue.

-1


> 3. Change it to _slow_view, because compared to _temp_view, the name  
> should act as an immediate warning for people who haven't read the  
> documentation.

+1 (if we are to keep them and not disable by default)


> 4. Ship CouchDB with _temp_view disabled by default so that people
> must take the action of enabling it for use. (With a nice warning
> right next to the config option.) Then testing can use it
> transparently.

+1 (if we are to keep them)

Cheers
Jan
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