SOLR using sort but not sorting

[Alessandro Ferrucci <al...@gmail.com>]

Yo guys

so I have a very simplistic solr installation.  The relevant schema portion
is:


    <field name="last-name" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
    <field name="first-name" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
    <field name="school-year" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
    <field name="player-position" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
    <field name="school" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
    <field name="conference" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true"/>

everything else is set to default.

now I do

last-name:a*
I get all docs wiht last-name starting with a.

now I add sort=last-name asc

this DOES change the ordering of the docs but it's not exactly
alphabetically.

I looked at each relevancy score and all records have 1.0, so it's not using
the relevancy to boost at all.

Any ideas?

thx guys

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ale =]

Re: SOLR using sort but not sorting

[Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org>]

:     <field name="last-name" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true"/>

: now I add sort=last-name asc
:
: this DOES change the ordering of the docs but it's not exactly
: alphabetically.

Lucene sorting can't work on a field with more then one indexed term per
document, this was breifly covered in the "sort" param docs, but i have
beefed up the info....

http://wiki.apache.org/solr/CommonQueryParameters#sort

...if you have any ideas for improving the docs, please feel free to edit
the wiki.


-Hoss