Yeah, sorry, I went and did some manually testing right before I got this and you are right. It does work and something must be wrong else where.
Thanks, Tristan On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Robert Newson <[email protected]>wrote: > Using skip as suggested would be bad, yes. > > ?descending=true&limit=10 should do what you want, are you sure you're > passing the parameters correctly? If using curl, it's a common mistake > not pass the & character (which backgrounds the task and everything > after it is ignored). So put the whole url in single quotes. e.g; > > curl 'localhost:5984/pathtoview?descending=true&limit=10' > > B. > > On 26 February 2011 13:01, Tristan Sloughter > <[email protected]> wrote: > > My understanding is skip should only be used with large numbers. If I > have > > thousands of documents that would be bad, right? > > > > Tristan > > > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Alexander Uvarov < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Use ?skip=X where X = N - 10 > >> > >> N = count of documents (using reduce) > >> > >> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Tristan Sloughter > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > I was hoping with descending being true and limit=10 I could get the > last > >> 10 > >> > documents in a view. > >> > > >> > It does not seem to work for me, is there a way to get the last X > results > >> in > >> > a view without knowing the keys? > >> > > >> > Thanks, > >> > Tristan > >> > > >> > > >
