: It uses the doc insertion order by default. Strictly speaking: it sorts by score, and when multiple docs have identical scores, the secondary sorting is undefined (as an implementation detail it is _usually_ doc insertion order, but that's not really garunteed.
As for your original question... : > > > Is it possible to set up Solr such that when there's : > > no query (client would send : > > > in "*:*" for "q"), Solr would sort results (basically : > > all the documents) by date : > > > or some other criterion. why not use: sort = score desc, myDateField asc -Hoss
