`load_document` loads `_all_docs` instead of directly querying the document

[Gergely Daróczi]

I was debugging some of my CouchDB views when I realized that couch_potato's load_document triggers a query to http://host:port/db/_all_docs?include_docs=true and grabs the document from that view.

Is it normal? Fetching the document directly would be a lot faster way IMHO, like loading http://host:port/db/id instead.

[Alexander Lang]

Hm. Couch Potato just uses couchrest to load documents. When you call load it either calls get on a couchrest database object or calls bulk_load. I have no idea why couchrest would query _all_docs for any of these, but maybe if you open an issue there we can find out.

[Gergely Daróczi]

Thanks a lot for your quick response and for the links, you helped me a lot.
I've found out that we somehow passed an Array of only one String to load_document instead of a String, so bulk_load was called there. And bulk_load queries _all_docs it seems, which is pretty reasonable anyway.

Thanks again!