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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:03:26 -0500
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Subject: Re: Last 10 documents
From: Robert Newson <robert.newson@gmail.com>
To: user@couchdb.apache.org
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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
<tristan.sloughter@gmail.com> 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 <
> alexander.uvarov@gmail.com> 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
>> <tristan.sloughter@gmail.com> 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
>> >
>>
>