Hi, I ran into this a few days ago and haven't had a chance to look into it, but I thought I'd mention it any way.
I was doing some performance testing on some new hardware, I created 1 million test documents (exactly) and then ran various multi-threaded tests to time document fetch time. I then compacted my database and shutdown CouchDb well after compaction had finished. When I restarted CouchDb I found that even though the 1 million documents are still there, the doc_count value is zero. I can still fetch the documents without any problem. I'm using CouchDb 0.8-incubating and Erlang R12B-3 on a 4 core AMD64 Linux box with kernel 2.6.24 SMP. I'm not using replication. I encountered no errors while loading the database with the test documents or while running the tests. thanks, Peter
