> Well, this is the third try at a response to this message.  The first
> time, I was sure that Rob had it right.  Then I realized that Rob's
> solution doesn't retrieve documents that don't have titles.

There are two related proposals:

1:  A way to match every single record
2:  A way to match every record that has a value for a given index

I think that 1 is best served by a magical index in the cql context set.
eg cql.alwaysMatches = "" --> all records in db match
This fits the requirement and use cases and is easy to implement.

I think that there are already ways to do 2 (more than just the one I
pointed out, as Adam demonstrated) and we don't need another one.

The original proposal by Mike was a relation modifier, which I think is
overly complex for a simple requirement.

Rob

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