Yes, sorry I should have specified the criteria. I have a list of a subset of the documents in the database that need to be opened (I can store this list in any form necessary), but I am experiencing performance problems since I need to iterate over the list in order to filter or choose which documents to open.
Thanks, Jeremy On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Christian Grün <christian.gr...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > > > Is there a method to > > open a subset of documents (not distinguishable by path) in the database > > with performance similar to calling db:open($db_name)? > > Is there any criteria regarding the documents you want to open? If you > simply want to choose the first 10 documents, you could try a position > filter: > > collection("db")[position() = 1 to 10] > > Talking about performance: fn:collection and db:open are based on the > same code, so there shouldn’t be any difference. > > Hope this helps, > Christian >
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