_search_cleanup`¶

POST /{db}/_search_cleanup¶

Requests deletion of unreachable search (Clouseau) indexes of the specified database. The signatures for all current design documents is retrieved and any index found on disk with a signature that is not in that list is deleted.

Parameters:

db – Database name

Request Headers:

Accept –
- application/json
- text/plain
Content-Type – application/json

Response Headers:

Content-Type –
- application/json
- text/plain; charset=utf-8

Response JSON Object:

ok (boolean) – Operation status

Status Codes:

202 Accepted – Cleanup request has been accepted
400 Bad Request – Invalid database name
401 Unauthorized – CouchDB Server Administrator privileges required

Request:

POST /db/_search_cleanup HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Host: localhost:5984

Response:

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
Cache-Control: must-revalidate
Content-Length: 12
Content-Type: application/json
Server: CouchDB (Erlang/OTP)

{
    "ok": true
}

1.3.18. `/{db}/_nouveau_cleanup`¶

POST /{db}/_nouveau_cleanup¶

Requests deletion of unreachable search (Nouveau) indexes of the specified database. The signatures for all current design documents is retrieved and any index found on disk with a signature that is not in that list is deleted.