[COUCHDB-965] Notify client when querying a badly generated view

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: View Server Support
• Skill Level: Dont Know
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: afters
• Created: 25/Nov/10 12:33
• Updated: 02/Sep/18 06:31
• Resolved: 02/Sep/18 06:31

Description

Currently, the only notification on an exception thrown during view-generation is in the log. Bugs that cause such exceptions are often hard to hunt down as the client may have no indication that a bug has occurred, and no incentive to sniff around couchdb's log. Automatic testing for such bugs is also difficult.

I suggest having some kind of strict/fragile mode (either per couch, or per db), that would make sure that an error is returned when querying such badly generated views.