mongodb get elements which was inserted after some document

mongodb

Solution

If you do not override the default _id field you can use that objectID (see the mongodb docs) to make a comparison by time. For instance, the following query will find all the documents that are inserted after curDoc has been inserted (assuming none overwrite the _id field):

>db.test.find({ _id : {$gt : curDoc._id}})

Note that these timestamps are not super granular, if you would like a finer grained view of the time that documents are inserted I encourage you to add your own timestamp field to the documents you are inserting and use that field to make such queries.

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