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On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 05:30:18PM +0000, Robert Newson (JIRA) wrote:
> It depends on the size of the data inbetween headers. In my case, I have
> 1k of document and ~60k of attachment per document, so the overhead
> vanishes.  If you have smaller documents and no attachments, then the
> overhead is much higher, but your database is also much smaller, so
> compaction is much more feasible.

Err... you could have a very large number of small documents. Logs for
example.