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authorRobert Newson <rnewson@apache.org>2020-10-06 15:18:31 +0100
committerRobert Newson <rnewson@apache.org>2020-10-06 16:36:22 +0100
commit38f6ecad8f065e1e6049bf53362a84ed512e5b96 (patch)
treee9ac83c1ffabc680d4aaaf41631db3fa79896aa7
parent87201b7baa9ab652a0ee723d769db6fd5903540a (diff)
downloadcouchdb-38f6ecad8f065e1e6049bf53362a84ed512e5b96.tar.gz
simplify max_document_size comment
-rw-r--r--rel/overlay/etc/default.ini6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/rel/overlay/etc/default.ini b/rel/overlay/etc/default.ini
index f2bf12f54..3abe7578d 100644
--- a/rel/overlay/etc/default.ini
+++ b/rel/overlay/etc/default.ini
@@ -42,10 +42,8 @@ changes_doc_ids_optimization_threshold = 100
; Limit maximum document size. Requests to create / update documents with a body
; size larger than this will fail with a 413 http error. This limit applies to
; requests which update a single document as well as individual documents from
-; a _bulk_docs request. Since there is no canonical size of json encoded data,
-; due to variabiliy in what is escaped or how floats are encoded, this limit is
-; applied conservatively. For example 1.0e+16 could be encoded as 1e16, so 4 used
-; for size calculation instead of 7.
+; a _bulk_docs request. The size limit is approximate due to the nature of JSON
+; encoding.
max_document_size = 8000000 ; bytes
;
; Maximum attachment size.