Currently Lucene can only sort on a Keyword field properly. I guess your field is tokenized, which in this case the sort does not work properly.
A patch has been suggested to fix this problem ( but has not been applied yet ) http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30382 Aviran -----Original Message----- From: Daly, Pete [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 15:46 PM To: Lucene Users List Subject: Sorting on a long string I am new to lucene, and trying to perform a sorted query on a list of people's names. Lucene seem unable to properly sort on the name field of my indexed documents. If I sort by the other (shorter) fields, it seems to work fine. The name sort seems to be close, almost like the last few iterations through the sort loop are not being done. The records are obviously not in the normally random order, but not fully sorted either. I have tried different ways of sorting, including a SortField array/object with the field cast as a string. The index I am sorting has about 1.2 million documents. Are their known limitations in the sorting functionality that I am running into? I can provide more details if needed. Thanks for any help, -Pete --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
