Thanks Yonik. It was very useful. On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Yonik Seeley <yo...@lucidimagination.com>wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Preetam Rao<blogathan....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > If I have documents of type a, b and c but when I sort by some criteria, > > lets say date, > > can I make documents of kind c always appear at the bottom ? > > One way is to simply use sorting. > You could have a string field called "type_c" with > sortMissingFirst="true" (see the example schema) > Index "yes" for all documents that are of type_c > Then to sort by date, use sort=type_c desc, date desc > > If one needed to put type c docs at the top or bottom, then index "1" > for type c and "2" for other types, and then sort asc or desc as > needed. > > -Yonik > http://www.lucidimagination.com > > > > So effectively I want one kind of records always appear at the bottom > since > > they don't have valid data, > > whether sort is ascending or descending; > > > > Would a function query help here ? Or is it even possible ? > > > > Thanks > > Preetam > > >
