On May 9, 2012, at 2:43 AM, bryan rasmussen wrote: If you want to get the all_docs view you should use the include_docs parameter, which is normally a performance hit - is it also a performance hit with all_docs
I don’t think so. _all_docs gets its results from walking the main by-id index (as opposed to a separate view index) so there’s no extra b-tree lookup to fetch the documents. (Disclaimer: I am not an expert on the Erlang CouchDB implementation.) —Jens
