Great answers, all! Note that the view Wiki and the CouchDB book talk about
using an empty value or {} to select all rows that are a match for one
element in a compound key. IMHO key missing information.
Time permitting, I'll take a shot at the Wiki, unless someone else wants to
fix it.
David
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Brian Candler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 02:04:57PM -0800, David Van Couvering wrote:
> > I have a view that generates a type and a date as a composite key. This
> way
> > the results are sorted by type and then by date.
>
> That is, something like emit([doc.type,doc.date], ...) ?
>
> > I would like to call the view so that I get all rows that match a given
> > type, regardless of date. I need them sorted by date.
>
> startkey=["a_type"]&endkey=["a_type",{}]
>
> (with suitable URL encoding). They will still be sorted by date, because
> they are sorted by [type,date].
>
> For reduce values for all rows with a particular type, look at
> group_level=1
>
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