Yes, I did it with a PUT for each id. When you call for compaction, is there a way to see the progress or a way to know if it's done?
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Paul Davis <[email protected]>wrote: > How did you insert them? If you did a PUT per docid you'll still want > to compact afterwards. > > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Tim Tisdall <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've got several gigabytes of data that I'm trying to store in a couchdb > on > > a single machine. I've placed a section of the data in an sqlite db and > > the file is about 5.9gb. I'm currently placing the same data into > couchdb > > and while it hasn't finished yet, the file size is already 10gb and > > continuing to grow. The sqlite database is essentially a table of ids > with > > a json block of text for each, so I figured the couchdb wouldn't be too > > much different in size. > > > > Does anyone have some recommendations on how to reduce the size of the > db? > > Right now I've only inserted data and have not made any "updates" to > > documents, so there should be no revision copies to be cleared away. >
