[05:36:11] <arussel> it seems that from mongo 2.4 to mongo 3.6, we've lost the ability to create an index on an empty collection. Is there a way to force this in 3.6 ?
[05:38:10] <arussel> or is the issue comming from my driver (reactivemongo) ?
[05:49:07] <arussel> it was indeed a driver change: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/reactivemongo/NsFBbcL71xA
[08:26:35] <Derick> arussel: If you create an index on an empty collection, the collection should get created automatically — that's server behaviour, so I'm think that would have to be a driver issue. Which you already found...
[08:54:17] <chaitime> hello, when iterating over a collection, how can I do a counter in my loop, so I can have a table with numbers #1 jim, #2 sally, #3 john
[18:13:35] <altab> hello, I created a project, I was using JSON files before but I want to convert my app to MongoDB. I make a query with some parameters (subject, count, etc.), the query returns a list of objects (1k+ tweets in JSON format). On the index page, I list every query and when you click on one, you have the list of the query tweets. I think I will use this scheme (see attached picture) but I'm a noob with MongoDB so, please, give me your
[20:04:58] <Sammitch> so `ssh mongodump --archive --gzip > dump.gz` is way faster than non archive/gzip'd, is there any way to enable compression at the protocol level? really what I'd like to be able to do is `mongodump --host $remote --compress --archive | mongorestore`