Hi Dirkjan, On 22/05/2010 6:10 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
1. On the wiki someone asks if the reduce values are guaranteed to be passed in-order, and I'd be interested to hear that, too. 2. Relatedly, are the keys passed guaranteed to be a contiguous block? If not, why not?
IIUC, couch declines to make any such promises regardless of the current implementation. It is required that reduce functions be not only "referentially transparent, but it must also be commutative and associative"[1] - which means the answer to both the above is "no".
3. Is it possible to distinguish from the view server side under which version of the protocol its running? If not, could that be added?
I'm not aware of the view protocol version being formalized anywhere - is the version of couchdb itself enough to meet your requirements?
[1] http://damienkatz.net/2008/02/incremental_map.html Cheers, Mark
