On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Adam Kocoloski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 4, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Glenn Rempe wrote: > >> BTW. That was a magic trick Chris. Thank you. Bulk saves of 1000 docs >> went from almost 1 minute to less than 2 seconds the moment I changed that >> value in the futon config interface. >> Is there a reason that is not the default setting? > > I'd say inertia. The sequential IDs are a newish feature, and the > similarity between IDs might be a bit surprising to users. I'd be in favor > of switching the default, though. Best, > > Adam >
We've had this discussion before and decided that random id's should remain default. Though we should probably start writing a wiki page about methods for making CouchDB faster so that people have a chance to learn about such things. Paul
