> It's not really possible. > Lucene must iterate over all of the hits before it knows for sure that > it has the top sorted by any criteria (other than docid). > A Collector is called for every hit as it happens, and thus one can't > specify a sort order (sorting itself is actually implemented with a > sorting Collector).
Ok, so the sort doesn't actually affect the order in which a searcher iterates over an index, it just gets used by a TopDocsCollector to sort hits as they come in. I guess that makes sense. Thanks! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org