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I really hope I get to use Rethink in anger before I die. Last time, I had to move on because we are multi-tenant SaaS and it seemed the compound indexes just were not up to that task, does this release fix any of those issues? (I seem to recall I was having to use a between query and not being able to sort, but it was a while ago and I quickly got back to work with old reliable (postgresql))

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I think you're talking about https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/1227. It hasn't been fixed yet, and is a big deal for many multitenancy users.

I'll bump it up in the roadmap -- sorry it's taking so long to get this fixed. It turns out that everyone only needs 5% of RethinkDB features, but it's always a different 5%. That makes product roadmaps really hard. I think in this sense databases are a bit like word processors :)

That seems correct, I saw the issue bump on github, you guys seem like the nicest and brightest engineers around and really hope you guys keep that vibe.

another vote for compound indices.

Just FYI, you compound indexes are already fully supported -- see http://rethinkdb.com/docs/secondary-indexes/python/.

The particular issue in question is using an index to filter documents, and then ordering them by another index.

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