> Also, I don’t quite get what “re-creating” a database would entail.
Sorry, it seems to me that doesn't makes sense. While I wrote this I had the docs in my mind [1]: >If your use case creates lots of deleted documents (for example, if you are >storing short-term data like >log entries, message queues, etc), you might >want to periodically switch to a new database and >delete the old one (once >the entries in it have all expired). But re-reading this it turns out to me that this only makes sense if we don't need to keep the remaining docs. > Deleting a doc creates a tombstone, that’s where just deleting the user db is > easier, you don’t want to collect too many tombstones. Just out of curiosity: Would be the purge feature [2] a way out here? Thanks, Olaf [1] https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/maintenance/performance.html#delete-operation [2] https://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/api/database/misc.html?highlight=purge
