Is it basically an all_docs + include_docs? -Filippo
On Oct 3, 2013, at 11:51 PM, Alexander Shorin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Oct 3, 2013, at 11:43 AM, Vivek Pathak <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Just fyi, there is couchdb-dump available in >>> tihttp://code.google.com/p/couchdb-python/ >> >> Looks like these two tools use entirely different data formats. Has anyone >> thought of defining a common format for database dumps? > > I think it will be hard to define such. > > Dumping CouchDB data as JSON looks intuitive and requires less > additional actions for import/export. Having couchdb-python approach > with multipart format provides lesser footprint, but requires a more > tricky processing (boundaries, headers). Both solutions may use > CouchDB API without any additional data conversion. And both requires > a lot of disk space, much more than if you just copy database file or > make a replica of it, unless you xz-zip the output. > > -- > ,,,^..^,,,
