RE: sort order of "missing" items

2010-08-20 Thread Brad Dewar
e...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Yonik Seeley Sent: August-18-10 4:47 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: sort order of "missing" items On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Brad Dewar wrote: > When items are sorted, are all the docs with the sort field missing > considered &qu

Re: sort order of "missing" items

2010-08-18 Thread Yonik Seeley
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Brad Dewar wrote: > When items are sorted, are all the docs with the sort field missing > considered "tied" in terms of their sort order, or are they "indeterminate", > or do they have some arbitrary order imposed on them (e.g. _docid_)? If it's a numeric field,

sort order of "missing" items

2010-08-17 Thread Brad Dewar
When items are sorted, are all the docs with the sort field missing considered "tied" in terms of their sort order, or are they "indeterminate", or do they have some arbitrary order imposed on them (e.g. _docid_)? For example, would "b" be considered as part of the sort in the following query,