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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:20:45 -0800
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Subject: Re: _all_docs vs regular view
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OK that was exactly the answer I was looking for. Many thanks.
On Feb 25, 2014 12:58 AM, "Robert Samuel Newson" <rnewson@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 <siriele2x3@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?
>
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