+1 for both Chris's and Yonik's comments.
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Yonik Seeley <yo...@lucidimagination.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Chris Hostetter > <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> wrote: >> As the code stands now: we fail fast and let the person building hte index >> make a decision. > > Indexing two fields when one could work is unfortunate though. > I think what we should support (eventually) is a max() function will also > work on a multi-valued field and select the maximum value (i.e. it will > simply bypass the check for multi-valued fields). > > Then one can utilize sort-by-function to do > sort=max(author) asc > > -Yonik > http://lucidimagination.com >
