My opinion is that if you want to enable sorting on multi-term fields, you need a pluggable selection policy. I see someone wanting biggest/smallest term represent a document when sorting. Or maybe a function of the terms.
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 20:34, Uwe Schindler <u...@thetaphi.de> wrote: > I updated yesterday https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1372 (added > a relates), but my comment was not posted to this list (maybe relation > updates in JIRA issues will not post to java-dev?). > > When working with Shalin Shekhar Mangar on SOLR-940 (where sorting of > TrieRange fields is needed), I again thought about the issue. Maybe we could > change FieldCache to only put the very first term from a field of the > document into the cache, enabling sorting against this field. If possible, > this would be very nice and in my opinion better that the idea proposed in > the issue. > > For TrieRange the order proposed in this issue would also be fine, as the > highest precision field terms are always before the lower precision ones in > the global TermEnum, so if FieldCache would sort against the *first* term > and not hit any exceptions in searcher when more terms than documents are > available, I would also be happy. > > Any comments or ideas? > > ----- > Uwe Schindler > H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen > http://www.thetaphi.de > eMail: u...@thetaphi.de > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > -- Kirill Zakharenko/Кирилл Захаренко (ear...@gmail.com) Home / Mobile: +7 (495) 683-567-4 / +7 (903) 5-888-423 ICQ: 104465785 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
