To be fair the second result seems consistent with the Solr grouping logic :
*First Query results (Suspicious)* 1) group.sort= score desc -> select the group head as you have 1 doc per group( the head will be the top scoring doc per group) 2) sort=score asc -> sort the groups by the score of the head ascending ( so the final resulting groups should be ascending in score) *Second Query results ( CORRECT)* 1) group.sort= score desc -> select the group head as you have 1 doc per group( the head will be the top scoring doc per group) 2) sort -> sort the groups by the score of the head ( so the final resulting groups are sorted descending) Are we sure the the sort is expected to sort the groups after the grouping happened ? I need to check the internals but I agree the current behaviour is not intuitive. Cheers ----- --------------- Alessandro Benedetti Search Consultant, R&D Software Engineer, Director Sease Ltd. - www.sease.io -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Grouped-Result-sort-issue-tp4329255p4329292.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.