You can only query contiguous ranges of keys with startkey/endkey. [2010, 05, "", "", 13] is lower than [2010, 05, "\u9999", "\u9999", 12] and is therefore included.
B. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Luke Driscoll <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > I'm sorry if this question has been answered before, but I took a look at > the archives and couldn't find the answer that quite covers it. > > I have a complex key of > [year, month, "user name", "platform", day] > > The reason that I did it this way (put day at the end) is because I need to > be able to reduce to a group level of "year, month" as well as "year, month, > user", "year, month, user, platform" and "year, month, user, platform, day". > And I didn't want to create multiple views because the data are the same > > Now, when I search for date ranges like this: > startkey = [2010, 05, "", "", 1], endkey = [2010, 05, "\u9999", "\u9999", > 12] > it gives me the results for the whole of May, rather than just the first > twelve days. > > However, if I remove the "platform" from the key and search > startkey = [2010, 05, "", 1], endkey = [2010, 05, "\u9999", 12] > it works as expected. > > Can you give me some pointers as to what I'm doing wrong, or give me some > suggestions as to how to do this better. > > Thanks in advance, > Luke >
