CouchDB delay building index (CouchDB 1.5.0 on Windows Server 2008 R2)

Question

I understand that CouchDB hashes the source of each design documents against the name of the index file. Whenever I change the source code, the index needs to be rebuild. Co

Answer 1

It is possible to set os_process_limit to an extra-low value (1 sec, for sample). This way you can detect which doc takes long to be indexed and optimize your map function for performance.

Answer 2

It is a known issue, but just in case: if you have gigabytes of docs, you can forget about reduce functions. Only build-in ones will work fast enough.