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Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:49:46 +0200
From: Volker Mische <volker.mische@gmail.com>
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Subject: delayed_commits false
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Hi All,

delayed_commits were enabled to have better performance especially for 
single writers. The price you pay for is that you potentially lose up to 
one second of writes in case of a crash.

Such a setting makes sense, though in my opinion it shouldn't be enabled 
by default. I expect* that people running into performance issues at 
least take a look at the README or a FAQ section somewhere. There the 
delayed_commit setting could be pointed out.

I'd like to be able to say that on a vanilla CouchDB it's hard to lose 
data, but I can't atm. I'm also well aware that there will be plenty of 
performance tests when 1.0 is released and people will complain (if 
delayed_commits would be set to false by default) that it is horrible 
slow. Though safety of the data is more important for me.

If the only reason why delayed_commits is true by default are the 
performance tests of some noobs, I really don't think it's a price worth 
paying.

*I know that in reality people don't

I would like to see delayed_commits=false for 1.0

Cheers,
   Volker