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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 09:46:57 -0800
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Subject: Re: Re: data loading
From: Rhett Garber <rhettg@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com> wrote:

> Third, if you have a good method for generating sorted document id's,
> inserting sorted ID's into CouchDB *should* give you better write
> performance. Chris Anderson had some luck with this from directly
> within the Erlang VM. There's no reason it shouldn't apply to the HTTP
> api as well but I haven't personally tested it just to make sure.

It's advisable to create my own doc ids ? Why wouldn't they be sorted
when couchdb creates them ?
Or perhaps I should be asking, how are the doc ids in couchdb generated ?

Rhett