create index ignores name

[JP Phillips]

The following line, http://bazaar.launchpad.net/+branch/mgo/v2/view/head:/session.go#L868, is not setting the name from the Index struct passed into the function.

[Gustavo Niemeyer (niemeyer)]

Indeed, it uses the default index name which is used by the other drivers. The field is used when you read the indexes, though.

Is there a use case for manipulating the index name by hand?

Setting as Won't Fix for now, until we have more understanding of the use cases.

[JP Phillips (jp-r)]

It's a standard part of the ensureIndex command, see http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/method/db.collection.ensureIndex/#db.collection.ensureIndex.

The options document contains a field "name" which allows the user to specify the name for the index rather than let mongo generate it.

The use case is it's functionality provided by the standard mongo command.