+1 on shipping this in 2.0. rnewson has done a final review of the patch and I’m confident we can get it ready in time.
Best Jan -- > On 15 Sep 2015, at 16:09, Nolan Lawson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi friends, > > I've been working for some time with folks from CouchDB/Cloudant to get an > implementation of _bulk_get into CouchDB. The goal of the new endpoint is > to vastly speed up replication by avoiding unnecessary additional HTTP > requests [1]. > > There is already a PR by Alexander Shorin out on CouchDB itself [2], based > on some discussion of prior art [3] including a similar endpoint in rcouch > and Couchbase Sync Gateway. > > In PouchDB, we implemented both a server-side version in PouchDB Server [4] > as well as a client-side version [5] which falls back to normal slow GETs > if it doesn't find a _bulk_get endpoint. > > I've gotten the +1 from Will Holley that our implementation is consistent > with the proposed CouchDB version, so it is very likely that PouchDB will > ship with support for the endpoint in the next release (5.0.0, sometime > around October 1st), at which time we'll also release PouchDB Server 1.0.0, > so that folks can try out the fast new sync. > > If you would like to test out the implementation yourself, it's just: > > npm install -g pouchdb-server@pouchdb/pouchdb-server#use-pouchdb-master > npm install pouchdb@pouchdb/pouchdb > > Or to download the browserified version of the master branch, you can go to > http://pouchtest.com/nightly . > > Please try the proposed implementation and let us know at > http://slack.pouchdb.com, irc://freenode.net/#pouchdb, or > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pouchdb if you have any issues with > it. I'm also going to take the time before the next release to test against > Couchbase Sync Gateway. Although it's passing in our CI [6] I would like to > confirm that we are using CSG's endpoint as intended. > > Cheers, > Nolan > > [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2310 > [2]: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-chttpd/pull/33 > [3]: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-couch/pull/18 > [4]: https://github.com/pouchdb/express-pouchdb/pull/208 > [5]: https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb/pull/4335 > [6]: https://travis-ci.org/pouchdb/pouchdb/jobs/80300066 > > -- > Nolan Lawson > nolanlawson.com > github.com/nolanlawson -- Professional Support for Apache CouchDB: http://www.neighbourhood.ie/couchdb-support/
