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Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 09:12:30 +0100
From: Simon Metson <simon@cloudant.com>
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Subject: Re: Clearing a database.
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Hi, 
You can use _bulk_docs to delete multiple documents at once:

http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_Bulk_Document_API#Modify_Multiple_Documents_With_a_Single_Request

If you can't delete the whole DB I'd write a script that consumes _all_docs?limit=X and deletes all the documents in batches of size X. You can tune X to your setup.
HTH
Simon


On Tuesday, 6 November 2012 at 05:00, Kevin Burton wrote:

> I would like to clear all documents out of the database. What would be a
> command that would do that? I can remove an individual document but I am not
> sure how to remove all documents.