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Posted to solr-user@lucene.apache.org by tushar kapoor <tu...@rediffmail.com> on 2009/04/02 06:33:02 UTC
Re: Unexpected sorting results when sorting with mutivalued filed
Shalin Shekhar Mangar wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:18 PM, tushar kapoor <
> tushar_kapoor_47@rediffmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I have indexes with a multivalued field authorLastName. I query them with
>> sort=authorLastName asc and get the results as -
>>
>> Index# authorLastName
>> 1 Antonakos
>> 2 Keller
>> 3 Antonakos
>> Mansfield
>>
>> However Index#3 has a value starting with A (Antonakos ) .. Should'nt
>> Index#3 preceed Index#2 in the results.
>>
>
> The last value is used for sorting in multi-valued fields. What is the
> reason behind sorting on a multi-valued field?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
>
>
Cant do much about it, that is the way our design is. Is there any way we
can change this ?
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Re: Unexpected sorting results when sorting with mutivalued filed
Posted by Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org>.
: > The last value is used for sorting in multi-valued fields. What is the
: > reason behind sorting on a multi-valued field?
strictly speaking the behavior is non-determinisitic. in most cases
attempting to sort on a multi-valued field will generate an error.
: Cant do much about it, that is the way our design is. Is there any way we
: can change this ?
pick the value you want to sort on and index it a seperate field.
-Hoss