Interesting find. I don’t believe this was ever true, the view engine will continue to build in the face of exceptions being thrown for every single document it encounters.
→ Proposing to remove this claim. Note that I don't have any code/proof to back this removal, maybe there is some feature that would deserve mention here, but the internets don't seem to know what it is. As to why this paragraph is here if indeed no such feature exists, I don't know: maybe the initial author stumbled upon a bug? Maybe s/he misunderstood CouchDB's behavior?
janl
commented
8 years ago
I couldn't find any mention of this anywhere else (googled for "couchdb view disable", "couchdb index disabled on error", etc.), and Robert Newson says on the Clarifications on CouchDB "index disabling" behavior on view errors/exceptions mailing list thread:
→ Proposing to remove this claim. Note that I don't have any code/proof to back this removal, maybe there is some feature that would deserve mention here, but the internets don't seem to know what it is. As to why this paragraph is here if indeed no such feature exists, I don't know: maybe the initial author stumbled upon a bug? Maybe s/he misunderstood CouchDB's behavior?