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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:37:39 -0500
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Subject: Re: Thoughts on document/views...
From: Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:22 PM, kowsik <kowsik@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just something that occurred to me and wanted to run it by you guys.
> For pcapr, I have a number of different types of documents in
> couch-db, some are comments, some are about the packets, etc. Now, I
> have views that do something like this:
>
> map: function(doc) {
>    if (doc.type == 'comment') emit(...);
> }
>
> With a large set of documents and a large set of views, any new
> document or updates to document is passed to __all__ of the views
> (when the view is eventually invoked). But I "know" that my documents
> come in classes and that only certain views really apply to them. I'm
> thinking of a view as a static method on a class that gets some
> information about the instances.
>

That's an interesting way to think about views I'd never considered before.

> What I'm getting at is, does it make sense to have some type of
> document "class" attribute and then have views bound to these classes?
> The goal, of course, being that couch-db can pre-filter a lot of these
> things and only run the views for the appropriate types of documents.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> K.
>

My first impression is that the idea makes perfect sense but sounds
like premature optimization.

HTH,
Paul Davis