[COUCHDB-714] Support document namespaces for more efficient view generation

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: Database Core
• Labels: namespaces view
• Skill Level: Committers Level (Medium to Hard)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ryan Hill
• Created: 28/Mar/10 16:40
• Updated: 02/Sep/18 06:28
• Resolved: 02/Sep/18 06:28

Description

I would like to suggest a new, possibly optional, reserved attribute to specify a namespace for documents. Design documents with this attribute ('_ns' perhaps) would only consider documents with the same namespace during view generation.

Obviously, separating documents into several nodes is a workable alternative, but keeping docs in the same node, with namespaces, would preserve the ability to use the 'include_docs by _id' feature.

There may also be cause to include a _namespaces document for mapping namespace names to URIs.