On Apr 5, 2007, at 10:45 PM, David Balmain wrote: > Now, if you don't specify the sort type, Ferret will try and determine > the sort type for you. It will first try to parse the field as an > integer and then as a float before defaulting the a string type. My > guess is that the reason John's sort isn't working is that Ferret is > detecting an integer field so it is trying to sort by integer but the > integers don't fit in a 4 byte integer, hence the problem. > > Hope that explains it. If not, let me know and I'll try and make it a > little clearer. I'm in a bit of a rush to get through all the emails > on the list to see if there are any issues I need to deal with before > putting out another release.
That explains it very well, thanks. I wasn't aware of the default sort behavior. It might be worth it to mention that (more?) prominently in the documentation. Thanks again, John _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
