: When I sort by price ascending, documents with no price are listed : first. I would like them listed last. I tried adding the : sortMissingLast flag, even though it says it is only for strings, but
it works for any field type *backed* by a string, including the SortableIntField (and it's breathren) : it did not help. Why doesn't sortMissingLast work on non-strings? This : seems like a very common issue, but I couldn't find any solutions when : I searched this group and on google. historicly it has been because of a fundemental limitation in how the Lucene FieldCache has historicly worked where the array backed FieldCaches use the default numeric value (ie: 0) when docs have no value (but in the case of Strings, the default is "null" which is easy to test for) i am 99.99% certain this has changed on the trunk, so all of the Trie*Fields should support the sortMissing* options in 4.x -Hoss
