Database size growing unexpectdly after upgrading couchdb to 3.2.2 from 3.1

[tvreddydba]

Description

Database size growing unexpectdly after upgrading couchdb to 3.2.2 from 3.1
example. we have database called jobs and it went to 256g in 4 days and reduced to 4g after i ran compaction.

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Expected Behaviour

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Additional Context

[nickva]

Do you see any errors or failures in the logs?

You can try to configure compaction according to https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/maintenance/compaction.html#compaction and see if when it triggers by following active tasks and the logs.