: Yes, I am populating "ptime" using a default of "NOW". : : I only store the id, so I can't get ptime values. But from the perspective : of business logic, ptime should not change.
if you are populating it using a *schema* default then the warning text i pasted into my last message would definitely apply to your situation and eeasily explain the behavior your are seeing -- because the schema defaults are applied on a per node basis, so the values wouldn't be garunteed to be consistent for hte entire shard. If you are populating it using and update processor that fills in a default (such as the TimestampUpdateProcessorFactory i linked to in my last message) prior to the distribute update logic, then everything should be working fine and if you are seeing the order change then the problem is likeley unrelated to my wild guess. As erick said: you have to give us a *lot* more details (exactly what your data looks like, what queries you are doing, what results you see, how those results differ from what you expect, etc...) in order to provide more useful/meaningful advice. https://wiki.apache.org/solr/UsingMailingLists -Hoss http://www.lucidworks.com/