[COUCHDB-72] Long _design documents result in error_header_too_large error

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.7.2
• Fix Version/s: 0.8
• Component/s: Database Core

Environment

OS X (Leopard) MacBook, plenty of RAM and disk.

• Assignee: Damien Katz
• Reporter: John Christopher Anderson
• Created: 29/May/08 17:57
• Updated: 18/Jul/08 11:34
• Resolved: 24/Jun/08 09:42

Description

When first accessing a large view, CouchDB returns the following error both to Futon and its couch.log

[Thu, 29 May 2008 17:53:21 GMT] [error] [emulator] Error in process <0.724.0> with exit value: badmatch,{error,error_header_too_large,[

{couch_view,reset_file,4}

,

{couch_view,start_update_loop,4}]}

The threshold of view size to cause this error is somewhere between 1800 bytes (works) and 3500 bytes (breaks).

Removing content from the design document to bring it below the threshold does not fix the problem, instead a new error is thrown:

[Thu, 29 May 2008 17:46:16 GMT] [error] [emulator] Error in process <0.717.0> with exit value: {{badmatch,eof},[{couch_file,read_header,2},{couch_view,start_update_loop,4}

]}