On Jul 12, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Ryan Zezeski wrote: >> >> >> Please do! The wiki requires a user account to prevent spam, but aside from >> that there shouldn't be any roadblocks. >> >> Thanks, >> Chris > > > I feel weird just adding to the wiki without someone's approval seeing that > I'm hardly acquainted with CouchDB. Here's my stab at it. If I get no > replies by tomorrow I'll add it to the wiki as is. >
looks good to me. > === Compression of Attachments === > As of version 0.11, CouchDB, by default, will automatically compress certain > attachment types. That is, based on the Content-Type header of the request > CouchDB may perform compression of the data. This is done to reduce the > amount of data being shuffled around during replication, and in most cases > it's probably what you want. However, if uploading large files (e.g. a 200M > CSV) you may want to tweak this configuration in order to avoid compression > and therefore reduce the network latency of the request. > > This setting can be found in the attachments section of the configuration. > > -Ryan
