That's surprising. Could you post a brief example of your index and search code?
It sounds like you're saying docs 1, 2, 3 all have category aaa docs 4, 5, 6 all have category bbb docs 7, 8, 9 all have category ccc But if you search for category:bbb you don't get docs 4, 5, and 6 Is this a fair statement of the issue? Best Erick On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:44 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just implemented a sorting feature on our application where the user can > change the sort on a query and reexecute the search. It works fine on > text fields where most of the documents have different field values. > However, on fields that are categories, that is, there are only four > distinct values for the category field and > all of the documents fit into a distinct category, the results are not in > the sorted values. > > All of the sort fields are untokenized and stored. and each document has > only one value for the sorted field. > > Are there any known issues (Lucene 2.3.0)? How can I go about debugging > this? I have tried Luke, also I have the Lucene source. > > Bob Hastings > Ancept Inc.