correct, you can't start a doc id with _. It seems simple enough to solve this by prefixing "email:" to your ids.
B. On 21 February 2013 11:12, Vincenzo Scolaro <[email protected]> wrote: > I had the same need and I did it this way > id = md5 (email) > > What do you think? > > Vincenzo > > > 2013/2/21 svilen <[email protected]> > >> hi >> the docs state that anything can be put in _id, except that it can't >> start with "_" underscore. >> >> still, the _ is valid character for starting email address... >> effectively meaning that in general, e-mail addresses cannot be used as >> id (the only enforced unique thing).. and has to be stored as a field. >> or prepended with something non-underscore. >> >> correct? >> >> svil >>
