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Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 22:10:16 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Randall Leeds (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Resolved] (COUCHDB-736) stale-ok view queries can return
 inconsistent partial results
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Randall Leeds resolved COUCHDB-736.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

It sounds like you're trying to confer some notion of "stability" on the database-at-the-time-of-first-indexing-request, and asking that *all* those documents be indexed before any result can be returned. This idea seems bogus to me, because as future updates arrive the stale index can always again become a partial index. If you need to be sure the index reflects the state of the db you should not be using stale=ok :)

> stale-ok view queries can return inconsistent partial results
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-736
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-736
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 0.11
>            Reporter: Chris Anderson
>
> since r796805 requests to views with the stale=ok option have returned partially computed index results. This changed the semantics of views. This ticket is about maintaining the old semantics.
> This should be changed so stale=ok only returns what would be returned by a normal view request. stale=partial would be an OK name for an option to provide the current behavior. 
> The best way to fix this would be to store the NewGroup sent on the partial_update cast in #group_state.partial_group instead of #group_state.group
> This will also eliminate the (rare) changes of serving inconsistent results with a regular view query.

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