On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> wrote: > > : However, many of our multiValued fields are single valued for the majority > : of documents in our index so we may not have noticed the incorrect sorting > : behaviors. > > that would make sense ... if you use a multiValued field as if it were > single valued, you would never enocunter a problem. if you had *some* > multivalued fields your results would be sorted extremely arbitrarily for > those docs that did have multiple values, unless you had more distinct > values then you had documents -- at which point you would get a hard crash > at query time.
AFAIK, not any more. Since that behavior was very unreliable, it has been removed and you can reliably sort by any multi-valued field in lucene (with the sort order being defined by the largest value if there are multiple). -Yonik http://lucidimagination.com
