[Backport v5.3] DOCSP-47826 Clarify batchSize (#117)

Co-authored-by: lindseymoore <[email protected]>

Author: github-actions[bot]

source/read/change-streams.txt

@@ -163,7 +163,14 @@ customize its behavior:
 
    * - ``batchSize()``
      - | Specifies the maximum number of change events to return in each batch of the
-         response from the MongoDB cluster.
+         response from the MongoDB cluster. By default, returns an initial batch size 
+         of ``101`` documents and a maximum size of 16 mebibytes (MiB) for each subsequent batch. 
+         This option can enforce a smaller limit than 16 MiB, but not a larger one. If you set 
+         ``batchSize`` to a limit that results in batches larger than 16 MiB, this 
+         option has no effect.
+
+       | A ``batchSize`` of ``0`` means that the cursor will be established, but no documents 
+         will be returned in the first batch.
 
    * - ``collation()``
      - | Specifies the collation to use for the change stream cursor.

source/read/cursors.txt

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ cursors reduce both memory consumption and network bandwidth usage.
 
 In the {+driver-short+}, some streams are backed by cursors. The size of batches used
 in these underlying cursors depends on the demand requested on the ``Subscription`` for the
-``Publisher``. The batch size of data contained by each underlying cursor can be set by
+``Publisher``. You can set the batch size of data contained by each underlying cursor by
 using the ``FindPublisher.batchSize()`` method.
 
 Sample Data

source/read/distinct.txt

@@ -113,7 +113,12 @@ The following table describes some methods you can use to customize the
      - Description
 
    * - ``batchSize()``
-     - | Sets the number of documents to return per batch.
+     - | Sets the number of documents to return per batch. By default, returns an initial batch size 
+         of ``101`` documents and a maximum size of 16 mebibytes (MiB) for each subsequent batch. 
+         This option can enforce a smaller limit than 16 MiB, but not a larger one.
+      
+       | A ``batchSize`` of ``0`` means that the cursor will be established, but no documents 
+         will be returned in the first batch.
 
    * - ``collation()``
      - | Specifies the kind of language collation to use when sorting

source/read/retrieve-data.txt

@@ -129,9 +129,14 @@ to it. The following table describes commonly used methods:
      - Description
 
    * - ``batchSize(int batchSize)`` 
-     - | Limits the number of documents to hold in a cursor at a given time. To
-         learn more about cursors, see :manual:`cursor
-         </reference/glossary/#std-term-cursor>` in the MongoDB Server documentation.
+     - | The maximum number of documents within each batch returned in a query result. By default, the ``find`` 
+         command has an initial batch size of ``101`` documents and a maximum size of 16 mebibytes (MiB)
+         for each subsequent batch. This option can enforce a smaller limit than 16 MiB, but not a larger
+         one. If you set ``batchSize`` to a limit that results in batches larger than
+         16 MiB, this option has no effect. 
+         
+       | A ``batchSize`` of ``0`` means that the cursor will be established, but no documents 
+         will be returned in the first batch.
 
    * - ``collation(Collation collation)`` 
      - | Sets the collation options as an instance of the ``Collation`` class.