On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Chris Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Paul Davis > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Trunk has support for streaming writes when a Content-Length header is >> present. Chris Anderson was just working the other day on streaming >> writes to disk in the absence of a Content-Length header. That >> basically means that if your HTTP client sends a content-length >> header, the sky's the limit. If you don't send a Content-Length >> header, you'll be limited by the available RAM on the machine running >> CouchDB until Chris finishes his patch. > > Just to clear up, currently attachment PUTs without Content-Length > headers are rejected. I think that we fixed the RAM buffering issue > after all: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-189 (fixed) > > So if you know the length of the attachment, PUT should work for you > no matter how big it is.
Very cool. What about reading the attachment? Is there a significant performance hit for streaming the attachment out of the database as opposed to reading the data directly out of a separate file? thanks, Barry > > -- > Chris Anderson > http://jchris.mfdz.com >
