Hi

I have a Use Case where I store an Account Tree in the database. Each Account 
Node points to its parent and I can resolve the tree using several database  
queries by getting the account then its parent then its parents parent, I guess 
you get the idea!

We store data as attributes in these account objects and inheritance is used to 
easily propogate attributes down the account tree and override them at each 
node as required.

I've just been reading the wiki and seen a nice feature where I can emit index 
entries with foreign id's which is great if I already know them in the doc my 
map function is working on however I would prefer to just reference my parent 
and then *follow* that link to get the parent doc and retrieve it's parent id 
from there.

So I guess what I'm trying to ask for here is whether I can retrieve another  
document from the database, by id, from within the map function in a view?
I can see lots of other places in our design where this could be really useful 
especially for validation of referenced id's within documents.

Thanks

John

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