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$natural¶
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$natural
¶ Use the
$natural
operator to use natural order for the results of a sort operation. Natural order refers to the logical ordering of documents internally within the database.The
$natural
operator uses the following syntax to return documents in the order they exist on disk:Use
-1
to return documents in the reverse order as they occur on disk:See also