On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Chris Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Barry Wark <[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't claim to have groked CouchDB enough to know what the >> priorities for GSoC projects should be, but the missing feature that >> is preventing my organization from using CouchDB is the ability to >> combine view results using boolean combinations (e.g. I want all the >> doc ids of documents in view1 AND in view2 or all the doc ids of >> documents in view1 OR view2 etc.), including temporary views. >> >> I suspect this would be best implemented in Erlang, though perhaps the >> proposal for enhancing the external view servers or better Lucene >> integration is the better approach. >> > > This is a good proposal. Versions of it have been discussed on the > list and IRC on and off for a while. > > Views have a by-docid index, which means docid intersections can > happen in constant space as long as startkey/endkey aren't used.
We'll need to be able to specify startkey/endkey too for our use case. I hope that doesn't make the whole endeavor infeasible. Obviously this can be accomplished on the client end, but it seems like it belongs in the server. Thanks, Barry > > -- > Chris Anderson > http://jchris.mfdz.com >
