[couchdb] branch 3.x updated: simplify max_document_size comment

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The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/3.x by this push:
     new 38f6eca  simplify max_document_size comment
38f6eca is described below

commit 38f6ecad8f065e1e6049bf53362a84ed512e5b96
Author: Robert Newson <rn...@apache.org>
AuthorDate: Tue Oct 6 15:18:31 2020 +0100

    simplify max_document_size comment
---
 rel/overlay/etc/default.ini | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rel/overlay/etc/default.ini b/rel/overlay/etc/default.ini
index f2bf12f..3abe757 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.