On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 00:35, Benoit Chesneau <bchesn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Dale Harvey <d...@arandomurl.com> wrote: >> CouchDB generates uuid's that attempts to minimise the amount of rebalancing >> that needs to happen on insert, however thats only an optimization I would >> worry about if you are under fairly severe load. >> >> If your application has natural id's then I would use them, if not then I >> think its fine to use POST as long as you aware of the idempotent issue >> > Other way is to get a bunch of uuids from couch and using them in your > PUT, so you don't have to generate yourself uuids. (and you have best > of both world). > > - benoît >
Benoitc is referring to GET /_uuids (optionally with ?count=X).
