Ticket here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-158
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Paul Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > I already did that once. And someone already ported app engine to > CouchDB. And then no one cared. The patch itself isn't *too* horrid > but does take some mucking around. Pretty sure there's already a > ticket for it. > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> wrote: >> That would be a neat enhancement, worth a ticket, imo. >> >> On 1 June 2011 03:42, Jason Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Paul Davis <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> Now that we've moved to using NIF's I had been contemplating rewriting >>>> the ICU driver as a NIF to see if there were any performance >>>> differences. As part of that I would investigate the ability to pass >>>> in these tailoring bits to allow people to do fancier ICU collation >>>> that's been requested a couple times. >>> >>> Perhaps this is the wrong place to do this, but a feature I'd like to >>> see is specifying sort direction of keys in an array. This would give >>> AFAIK 100% compatibility with the Google App Engine indexing system; >>> thus in principle App Engine apps could be ported to CouchDB. >>> >>> emit([doc.first_name, doc.last_name, doc.age], 1); >>> >>> It is not possible for first names to sort ascending, last names to >>> sort descending, and age to sort ascending again. The example may seem >>> contrived but it happens all the time. >>> >>> -- >>> Iris Couch >>> >> >
