as mentioned, the warning is missleading in the case where you sort by
socre, i filed a bug as a reminder to fix it (and so people searching for
it will understand what's going on)
patches welcome! :)
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-270
: WARNING: Invalid sort "score desc" was specifi
A little background:
I originally conceived of query operation chains (based on some of my
previous hacking in mechanical investing stock screens: select all
stocks; take top 10% lowest PE; then take the top 20 highest growth
rate; then sort descending by 13 week relative strength).
So, I thought
Because "score desc" is the default Lucene & Solr behavior when no explicit
sort is specified, QueryParsing.parseSort() returns a null sort so that the
non-sort versions of the query execution routines get called. However the
caller SolrPluginUtils.parseSort issues that warning whenever it gets
