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From: Max Ogden <max@maxogden.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 16:46:35 -0700
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Subject: Re: Iterating all documents
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On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Randall Leeds <randall.leeds@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 16:41, Matthias Eck <matthias.eck@jibbigo.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I need to add a new field to all documents in my database.
> >
> > To have a better control I wanted to do this by batches and defined 2
> views:
> > documents_without_newfield
> > documents_with_newfield
> >
> > My idea was to just take the first 100 returned by the
> > documents_without_newfield view, calculate the new field for all of
> > them, save them and take the next 100 etc.
> >
> > As it turns out the views do not seem to be updated immediately, which
> > means that the view documents_without_newfield returns about 95
> > documents that actually already had the new field calculated in the
> > previous step.
>
> If you do not include "stale=ok" with your query, you should get
> up-to-date views.
> Though, perhaps view groups only update to the latest stable commit on
> the database.
> In that case, you should be able to get what you want by POSTing to
> /_ensure_full_commit or setting the X-Couch-Full-Commit: true header
> on your request to update the documents.
>

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