On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Guby <guby.mail@gmail.com> wrote:
>  The only solution I can see at the moment is to create a worker that
> queries the database whenever it is told that there has been a document
> update, but that seems really stupid and unnecessary.

why not using FulltextSearch api or extend it to be notified about
document updates ? With something like a comet server, it may solve
your problem without having another layer that poll the database about
updated. imho it would be best to solve it on couchdb layer.

http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/FullTextSearch

- benoît