I have an index which I cannot rebuild (it is very large). The schema includes a field 'dateorigin_sort'. This is an integer, not an 'sint'. It sorts very quickly but does not support range queries.
Somehow the index has acquired one record out of millions in which an integer value has been populated by an empty string. I would like to isolate this record and remove it. This field exists solely to make sorting faster, and since it has an empty record, sorting blows up. Is it possible to find this record? Is there any way to differentiate between this record and all of the other records which have real numbers populated? This query will isolate records which do not have the field populated. (It works on all field types.) -dateorigin_sort:[* TO *] But, since this record is an integer (not an sint) no other range query works. Here are the facet counts: <lst name="facet_counts"> <lst name="facet_queries"/> <lst name="facet_fields"> <lst name="dateorigin_sort"> <int name="">1</int> <int name="-1">17224588</int> <int name="-1019087976">1</int> <int name="-1020481693">1</int> and millions more Here is the stack trace from solr when doing a sort on dateorigin_sort: HTTP Status 500 - at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:48 ) at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:468) at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:497) at org.apache.lucene.search.FieldCacheImpl$1.parseInt(FieldCacheImpl.java:136) at org.apache.lucene.search.FieldCacheImpl$3.createValue(FieldCacheImpl.java:17 1) at org.apache.lucene.search.FieldCacheImpl$Cache.get(FieldCacheImpl.java:72) at org.apache.lucene.search.FieldCacheImpl.getInts(FieldCacheImpl.java:154) at org.apache.lucene.search.FieldCacheImpl.getInts(FieldCacheImpl.java:148) at org.apache.lucene.search.FieldSortedHitQueue.comparatorInt(FieldSortedHitQue ue.java:204) at org.apache.lucene.search.FieldSortedHitQueue$1.createValue(FieldSortedHitQue ue.java:175) at org.apache.lucene.search.FieldCacheImpl$Cache.get(FieldCacheImpl.java:72) at org.apache.lucene.search.FieldSortedHitQueue.getCachedComparator(FieldSorted HitQueue.java:155) at org.apache.lucene.search.FieldSortedHitQueue.<init>(FieldSortedHitQueu e.java:56) at org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher.getDocListAndSetNC(SolrIndexSearche r.java:1028) at org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher.getDocListC(SolrIndexSearcher.java: 801) at org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher.getDocListAndSet(SolrIndexSearcher. java:1237) at org.apache.solr.request.StandardRequestHandler.handleRequestBody(StandardReq uestHandler.java:117) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase. java:77) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:658) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:1 91) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java: 159) Cheers, Lance Norskog