[COUCHDB-2738] Allow views in the auth DB to be accessed by administrators on the clustered interface

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: View Server Support
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mike Wallace
• Created: 01/Jul/15 14:43
• Updated: 27/Oct/15 21:50
• Resolved: 15/Jul/15 10:23

Description

Views in the authentication DB on the clustered interface are currently broken. The reason is because ddoc_cache tries to open views with no admin context and so falls foul of the special design doc restriction on the authentication DB.

We can fix this by having ddoc_cache always use ?ADMIN_CTX and then teaching fabric to call couch_db_users:after_doc_read/2. We then also need to update couch_index_server to use ?ADMIN_CTX so that any background jobs can access the design docs in the authentication DB (e.g. view compaction).