On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Avlesh Singh <avl...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> However the RuntimeException that Solr throws has a misleading error
> message
> - "... but it's impossible to sort on tokenized fields". The field in this
> case is untokenized.
>

The error is thrown by Lucene. Actually, multi valued fields are not very
different from tokenized fields. Multiple values are indexed with their
respective token positions differing by the positionIncrementGap value as
specified in schema. The same is done for tokenized fields but the
difference in positions of the tokens depends on the analysis chain.

-- 
Regards,
Shalin Shekhar Mangar.

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