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A comment on Optimizing MongoDB Compound Indexes. Parent comment

Re:Optimizing MongoDB Compound Indexes by MartinMond on Monday October 08, 2012 @02:42PM (#4628202)
Yes of course, but it's kinda slow if you have to maintain one compound index for each possible query you're going to run, that's why I was asking.
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Re:Optimizing MongoDB Compound Indexes by chmod775 on Monday October 08, 2012 @11:55PM (#4629878)
Nope, you can use the compound index 'a,b,c' to query over the following fields:

    a
    a.b
    a,b,c
The manual actually explains it like that.
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