On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Aurélien Bénel <aurelien.benel@utt.fr>wrote:

> Create a view with the following map function:
>  function(o) {
>     emit(o.lastName, o);
>  }
>
> Then call the view with:
>  ?key="Woodward"
>
> ... or maybe I don't understand your question?
>

Well, I've kind of come full circle here and I probably oversimplified my
latest example. :-)

Earlier in the thread I have the problem whittled down to getting distinct
values for some redundant data across documents, which involved a simple
reduce function with rereduce, and to do that I need to emit a key that's an
array of multiple document fields. I definitely don't want to return the
entire document in this case since the documents might have reams and reams
of additional data I don't need here since this is ultimately being used to
drive a select box.

Thanks for the input--looks like the follow-up from Zachary covers the
answer--startKey and endKey that are the same should do the trick.

Appreciate everyone's assistance on this--very helpful as I go from "noob"
to "dangerous noob" with CouchDB. :-)

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