On 4/4/07, John Bachir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (shamelessly bumping this thread up...)
Shame on you. :D Bumping this up won't help anything, because they're probably only one person, David, who can answer you question, and he seems to be in and out, with large periods of time with no net connectivity. It's not that people aren't willing to help, it's just that most of us can't. -ryan > On Mar 31, 2007, at 8:30 PM, John Bachir wrote: > > My guess is that ferret is treating the data differently if it is > > only numeric characters? I've been using ferret for quite some time > > and have never come accros a type issue like this. > > > > Also, on that same model, I have another ferret field, configured the > > very same way, that is always a number; sorting works perfectly. > > However, those numbers are much smaller (number of messages in the > > discussion thread). > > > > So maybe ferret has a problem with big numbers? > > Anyway, I'm glad it's working again, but would be very interested to > > know what the problem was. > > > Does anyone have any insight into what may be causing this behavior? > > Thanks, > John > > _______________________________________________ > Ferret-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk > _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk

