Hi Tarjei, See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1478 - with trunk Solr (and soon, 1.4), you can use pseudo-field _docid_ for this purpose.
Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: tarjei [mailto:tar...@nu.no] > Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 2:18 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Sorting by insertion time > > Hi, > > Quite often I want a set of documents ordered by the time they were > inserted, i.e. "give me the 5 latest items that matches query foo". I > usually solve this by sorting on a date field. > > I had a chat with Eric Hatcher when he visited Javazone 2009 and he > said > that Solr places documents on disk in insertion order. > > This would make it possible for me to save a sorting step by not > sorting > by a specific field, but by insertion time in reverse. > > AFAIK Lucene knows how to do this, but which request parameters should > I > use in Solr? > > Kind regards, > Tarjei > > > -- > Tarjei Huse > Mobil: 920 63 413
