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AI-generatedMongoose autoIndex behavior shift between local development and production deployments
Context Mongoose 5.x and 6.x enable autoIndex: true by default, causing indexes to build automatically when a model is first compiled. In a local development environment with small datasets this completes quickly and transparently. In production, however, the same automatic build can block the Node.js event loop on large collections, trigger write-concern er
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