Re: Solr sort param behavior clarification

2012-02-02 Thread tiuser123
Hello Erick, Erick Erickson wrote > > Lucene (where the sorting happens) assembles a list of all the unique > *values* for a sort field and sorts the result set by comparing to that > list. It doesn't sort all the documents per-se. > Hmm, still confused. What do you mean by "sorts by comparing

Solr sort param behavior clarification

2012-02-02 Thread tiuser123
Hello new user here, Would just like to clarify the behavior of the solr/lucene sort param. In this post: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Lucene-sort-performance-roots-tp3102493p3104294.html I somehow got the impression that solr would do the sort only on the top ranking documents taken from