On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Jan 31, 2014, at 8:39 AM, Boaz Citrin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Instead we could replicate the database into a new instance and > > switchover, as replication is much faster. > > That seems sort of strange to me — I would expect replication to an empty > db to be slower, as it's doing basically the same work as compaction but > with a bunch of HTTP and network overhead. But I don't know the > implementation of CouchDB. > I think replication within the same CouchDB server does not use HTTP. But yes basically your larger point is correct, at least that is what I thought too. Something else I did not understand from the original post is why compaction would cause offline time? Boaz?
