Hello,

I have been able to reduce a complex case where a certain sized
document within our application causes "Reduce output must shrink more
rapidly" errors and I am not sure I understand why. I spent a great
deal of time making sure I have stripped the database, the documents
and the views to the bare minimum to make it easy to reproduce, I
would really appreciate if anyone could give me some insight on what
is causing this and if a fix exists, may it be ini settings etc. I
apologize in advanced if this is my lack of understanding views or how
they work as well as to this email being a bit long, but I think it is
required to express the issue in case it is indeed a bug.

Kind Regards,

-Chris

--Reproduce steps--

1) CouchDB Production release 1.10

2) Create a fresh database

3) Create the following design document

  {
   "_id": "_design/test",
   "_rev": "1-19eb11313c2602a00f0105f78202d1f3",
   "views": {
       "Grid": {
           "map": "function(doc) {\n  emit(\"result\", doc.data);\n}",
           "reduce": "function(keys, values, rereduce) {\n  var
container = {};\n\n  if(!rereduce) {\n    for(var value in values) {\n
     for(var col in values[value]) {\n        if(values[value]) {\n
      if(!container[col]) {\n            container[col] = {\n
    total: 0\n            };\n          }\n\n
container[col].total++;\n        }\n      }\n    }\n  } else {\n
for(var reduced in values) {\n      for(var col in values[reduced])
{\n        if(!container[col]) {\n          container[col] = {\n
     total: 0\n          };\n        }\n\n        container[col].total
+= values[reduced][col].total;\n      }\n    }\n  }\n\n  return
container;\n}"
       }
   },
   "language": "javascript"
  }

4) Create the following regular document (any id is okay)
  {
   "_id": "4334dff68f2283e6e8739eabb40a4e7a",
   "_rev": "24-524e9c9ebeaf88962f41e3a940788610",
   "data": {
       "C003089": "c1",
       "C006990": "c2",
       "C009996": "c3",
       "C012132": "c4",
       "C015574": "c5",
       "C018908": "c6",
       "C021545": "c7",
       "C024392": "c8",
       "C027281": "c9",
       "C030392": "c10",
       "C033457": null,
       "C036671": null,
       "C039663": null,
       "C042967": null,
       "C045398": null,
       "C048160": null,
       "C051924": null,
       "C054920": null,
       "C057239": null,
       "C060993": null,
       "C063309": null,
       "C066352": null,
       "C069003": null,
       "C072467": null,
       "C075210": null
   }
  }

5) Call the view, just a typical call no arguments
  http://<SERVER>:5984/db_24/_design/test/_view/Grid

6) Verify the response is CORRECT
  {"rows":[{"key":null,"value":{"C003089":{"total":1},"C006990":{"total":1},"C009996":{"total":1},"C012132":{"total":1},"C015574":{"total":1},"C018908":{"total":1},"C021545":{"total":1},"C024392":{"total":1},"C027281":{"total":1},"C030392":{"total":1},"C033457":{"total":1},"C036671":{"total":1},"C039663":{"total":1},"C042967":{"total":1},"C045398":
 {"total":1},"C048160":{"total":1},"C051924":{"total":1},"C054920":{"total":1},"C057239":{"total":1},"C060993":{"total":1},"C063309":{"total":1},"C066352":{"total":1},"C069003":
   {"total":1},"C072467":{"total":1},"C075210":{"total":1}}}
  ]}

7) Now, delete the previous document and add the following:
  {
   "_id": "4334dff68f2283e6e8739eabb40a4e7a",
   "_rev": "24-524e9c9ebeaf88962f41e3a940788610",
   "data": {
       "C003089": "c1",
       "C006990": "c2",
       "C009996": "c3",
       "C012132": "c4",
       "C015574": "c5",
       "C018908": "c6",
       "C021545": "c7",
       "C024392": "c8",
       "C027281": "c9",
       "C030392": "c10",
       "C033457": null,
       "C036671": null,
       "C039663": null,
       "C042967": null,
       "C045398": null,
       "C048160": null,
       "C051924": null,
       "C054920": null,
       "C057239": null,
       "C060993": null,
       "C063309": null,
       "C066352": null,
       "C069003": null,
       "C072467": null,
       "C075210": null,
       "C078387": null
   }
  }

8) Note that all we did was add a single property to the end of
"data", now run the same view again

9) Notice the error:
  {"error":"reduce_overflow_error","reason":"Reduce output must shrink
more rapidly: Current output:
'[{\"C003089\":{\"total\":1},\"C006990\":{\"total\":1},\"C009996\":{\"total\":1},\"C012132\":{\"total\":1},\"C015574\":'...
(first 100 of 575 bytes)"}

10) I am confused because all I did is add a single property, not sure
how this affects the reduce function?