I'm going to be a bit pedantic here since "before" and "after" are a little misleading. Perhaps "during" is better.
What happens internally is that a list "rows" long is kept (i..e the &rows=### parameter). Let's say &rows=20. A list to hold 20 items is created. The first 20 docs are just put in the list. After that, each document is compared against the items in the list and the new doc may replace one of the items in the list. Let's say you're sorting by an int asc. Let's say the min value in the list is 10 and the max is 100. Now, a new doc with a sort value of 110 comes in, it shouldn't be returned so Solr just passes on. Now a doc with a sort value of 9 comes in, it is put in the list and the doc with 110 is removed. So all the docs are examined, but only "rows" are held in memory. There are a series of refinements for SolrCloud and the like, but that's out of scope. Best, Erick On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 7:16 AM, Dheerendra Kulkarni <dheeren...@gmail.com> wrote: > Naveen, > > The documents are sorted before. Lets say if it was a post sort and you are > fetching 10 rows it would have pulled up top 10 rows and sorted it. but > that is not what happens in solr it sorts in all available docs as per the > query and goves the number of rows as per your requirment. > > Regards, > Dheerendra > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Sandeep Mestry <sanmes...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Naveen, >> >> I am not too sure what you're after but the sorting mechanism is applied >> after search results are fetched. >> >> From Solr Ref Guide: >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Common+Query+Parameters#CommonQueryParameters-ThesortParameter >> >> The sort parameter *arranges search results* in either ascending (asc) or >> descending (desc) order. >> >> Thanks, >> Sandeep >> >> On 11 July 2016 at 11:13, Naveen Pajjuri <pajjuri.re...@myntra.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > If i apply some sorting order on solr. when are the Documents sorted. >> > >> > 1. are documents sorted after fetching the results ? >> > 2. or we get sorted documents ? >> > >> > Regards, >> > Naveen >> > >> > > > > -- > Regards, > Dheerendra
