: Is the insert order of the fields important for Solr? "svn blame" can frequently be useful for understanding why specific choices were made...
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=604951 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-439 ...nut shell: it may not matter to you what order the fields are in, but there are some usecases where other users can optimize things if the field order is garunteed, and it's relatively cheap to do so, so solr preserves the order. -Hoss