Hey all, I’m very much in favour of sensible defaults for these values. IMHO these should have existed for a long time now.
These limitations put an upper boundary on how many databases and documents can be stored in CouchDB, but I think at nice ~69^256 for number of databases, we are on the safe side here. Best Jan — > On 1. May 2020, at 20:36, Robert Samuel Newson <rnew...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > There are other threads related to doc size (etc) limits for CouchDB 4.0, > motivated by restrictions in FoundationDB, but we haven't discussed database > name length and doc id length limits. These are encoded into FoundationDB > keys and so we would be wise to forcibly limit their length from the start. > > I propose 256 character limit for database name and 512 character limit for > doc ids. > > If you can't uniquely identify your database or document within those limits > I argue that you're doing something wrong, and the limits here, while making > FDB happy, are an aid to sensible application design. > > Does anyone want higher or lower limits? Comments pls. > > B. >
