[couchdb-documentation] 03/04: Add usage suggestions, taken from the old wiki

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commit 18f7722697589b3e89222eb0a1df5a26f42eef53
Author: Jonathan Hall <fl...@flimzy.com>
AuthorDate: Sun Nov 19 16:21:50 2017 +0100

    Add usage suggestions, taken from the old wiki
---
 src/api/database/common.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/api/database/common.rst b/src/api/database/common.rst
index 22d7040..cb067a9 100644
--- a/src/api/database/common.rst
+++ b/src/api/database/common.rst
@@ -416,6 +416,9 @@ before they are committed to disk. This increases the risk of the documents not
 being stored in the event of a failure, since the documents are not written to
 disk immediately.
 
+Batch mode is not suitable for critical data, but may be ideal for applications
+such as log data, when the risk of some data loss due to a crash is acceptable.
+
 To use batched mode, append the ``batch=ok`` query argument to the URL of the
 ``PUT``, :post:`/{db}`, or ``DELETE`` request. The CouchDB server will respond
 with an HTTP :statuscode:`202` response code immediately.

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