Cool, I understand now reduce isn't right, initially posted to the list because I couldn't decide that on my own.
So what's the most efficient way to get the latest document for each user? Seems like I shouldn't have to do one query per user but I'm open minded (: -Mike On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Chad George <[email protected]> wrote: > Selecting one row in a view out of many possible isn't what reduce is for. > > I try not to think of it as reducing a set of view results to a smaller set > but rather reducing each and every entry in the view to something smaller. > > The fact that reduce gets multiple view rows to work on at once is just an > optimization. I think its better to think of reduce as working on exactly > one view row at a time then rereduce the result to get final answer. > On Nov 11, 2010 5:22 PM, "Mike Bannister" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Cory, cool thanks. Wasn't able to decide on my own if reducing was OK for > > this kind of thing. > > > > Robert, but I need one document for each user, wouldn't that be a summary > of > > sorts? > > > > -Mike > > > > > > On Nov 11, 2010 4:46 PM, "Cory Zue" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > You could emit the users as keys, and in your reduce function just > > return the latest by date. > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Mike Bannister <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > >> Yeah, I'm trying... >
