On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nope. Problem is that the tie breaker is the internal Lucene Doc id. Which > a long time ago was invariant, that is a document indexed later always had > a larger internal doc id. But the various merge policies can combine > segments such that the internal IDs can change relative to one another.... > > So I think you're stuck with sorting.
Right. And for Solr 4, one can sort on the _version_ field to get newest or oldest first. -Yonik http://lucidworks.com