Hi Everyone,
While working on the Mango implementation for FDB, I've noticed that
_all_docs has some weird
ordering collation. If you do something like GET /db/_all_docs?startkey={}
it will return all the documents even though in view collation an object is
ordered after strings. The reason I've noticed this is that in the
pouchdb-find tests we have a few tests that check that {selector: {_id:
{$gt: {}}} return all the docs in the database [0].
This ordering feels wrong to me, but I'm guessing its been around for a
while. Currently for _all_docs on FDB, we have it that if you did the above
startkey query, it would not return any documents as we are following the
view collation ordering.
I want to know whether we should keep the old _all_docs ordering or rather
standardize on view collation ordering everywhere?
I would prefer we change it, but I'm not sure the implications of that for
client libraries and users.
Changing it would be a breaking change, but since 4.0 is going to be a lot
of breaking change I think this would be our best chance to do this.
Cheers
Garren
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https://github.com/nolanlawson/pouchdb-find/commit/e1ca2e2d18041f05a3d19bce4254f4d7b349ad20
