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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:19:03 +0200
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Subject: Re: The need for a key prefix view parameter
From: Wojciech Kaczmarek <kaczmarek.w@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 16:56, Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 02:23:17PM +0100, Brian Candler wrote:
>> (5) Strangely, doc id keys in _all_docs appear to behave differently;
>> perhaps they are ASCII-compared rather than UCA compared. See script 3
>> below.
>
> And this has just had me tearing my hair out for the last half hour: a
> search for
>
> =A0 =A0_all_docs?startkey=3D"_design/"&endkey=3D"_design/ZZZZ"
>
> did not match some of my documents, e.g. _design/c000. Now I realise that
> almost certainly this is because Z comes before c in ASCII collation.
>
> Is this intentional behaviour? If so I will change the Wiki so it recomme=
nds
>
> =A0 =A0_all_docs?startkey=3D"_design/"&endkey=3D"_design/~"

Isn't it better to use "\u9999" as the ending marker?