Hi, I am looking at the couchdb db database and view index directory and I see the files are saved as binary, my indexes and database are getting fairly large so I tried gzipping them (by hand) and it made a big difference (at least for my data).
Looking at http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/file.html I see that compressed is an option when reading or writing a file, is it worth trying this out, could it be an option in the ini file so we could trade off database size versus a possible lag in access? I can do look into this, does everything go through the couch_file module and is there a suitable test dataset that we can analyse performance with? thanks, Norman
