CouchDB sorting - Collation Specification

Collation Specification

Using a CouchDB view it seems my keys aren't 开发者_开发知识库sorted as per the collation specification.

rows:
   [0] key: ["bylatest", -1294536544000] value: 1         
   [1] key: ["bylatest", -1298817134000] value: 1
   [2] key: ["bylatest", -1294505612000] value: 1

I would of expect the second entry to come after the third.

Why is this happening?

I get this result for a view emitting the values you indicate.

{"total_rows":3,"offset":0,"rows":[
{"id":"29e86c6bf38b9068c56ab1cd0100101f","key":["bylatest",-1298817134000],"value":1},
{"id":"29e86c6bf38b9068c56ab1cd0100101f","key":["bylatest",-1294536544000],"value":1},
{"id":"29e86c6bf38b9068c56ab1cd0100101f","key":["bylatest",-1294505612000],"value":1}
]}

The rows are different from both of your examples. They fit the collation specification by beginning with the smallest (greatest magnitude negative) value and ending with the greatest value (least magnitude negative in this case).

Would you perhaps include the documents and map/reduce functions you are using?