Github user rnewson commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb-couch-mrview/pull/56
I still think the default behaviour of _all_docs, _changes and _view should
be to return everything that the parameters dictate (that is, we should fix the
default, the longstanding large-but-finite default is also a bug).
If we all agree to change that, then it needs to be abundantly clear to the
user that they did not get all results. One suggestion is, instead of changing
the default, we introduce an optional _maximum_ value for limit and then, if
set, reject all requests without an explicit limit parameter. So that's a 400
Bad Request if limit is too high _or_ if it's missing.
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