Hi Gary,

Yes, unfortunately, this is a bug. (Tracked here:
https://issues.basho.com/show_bug.cgi?id=867) We have not yet scheduled the
fix for this.

Best,
Rusty

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Gary William Flake <g...@flake.org> wrote:

> Ack.  I know what's happening with this.  Riaksearch is sorting by
> relevance, segmenting the results according to start and rows, and THEN
> sorting by the sort key.
>
> Is this the intended behavior?  If so, I am kind of surprised because the
> post sort is easy for the caller to do without Riaksearch's help.  What's
> hard is the pre-sort.
>
> I suppose the work around is to get all of the results, then send the
> result to map/reduce to correctly handle pre-sort, then filter by range.
>  However, before I do this, does anyone know if (a) this is considered
> broken? and (b) if so, is this scheduled to be fixed?
>
> Thanks,
> -- GWF
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Gary William Flake <g...@flake.org>wrote:
>
>> While coding up a front-end to paginate over a set of search results, I
>> think I found a bug whereby the result set is incorrectly segmented as a
>> function of the sort key, the start index, and the row count.  In the output
>> that follows, I am using the field ctime for sort order, and the value of
>> delta is simply the difference between subsequent ctime values (which I was
>> checking in order to debug what was happening).
>>
>> First, lets ask for just the first result:
>>
>> GET
>>> /solr/clips/select?q=user%3Ad33af3cca29a43e63e8f6a52dfdd99a61f7b7906%20AND%20private%3A1&start=0&rows=1&wt=json&sort=ctime
>>
>>
>>> title: weather flagler beach - Google Search
>>
>> ctime: 98701733411258
>>
>> delta: 0
>>
>> ----------
>>
>>
>>
>> Now, let's do the same query, but get the top three instead:
>>
>> GET
>>> /solr/clips/select?q=user%3Ad33af3cca29a43e63e8f6a52dfdd99a61f7b7906%20AND%20private%3A1&start=0&rows=3&wt=json&sort=ctime
>>
>>
>>> title: Amazon.com: knives
>>
>> ctime: 98701733349673
>>
>> delta: 0
>>
>> ----------
>>
>> title: weather flagler beach - Google Search
>>
>> ctime: 98701733411258
>>
>> delta: 61585
>>
>> ----------
>>
>> title: Bartholdi on spacefilling curves
>>
>> ctime: 98701733465867
>>
>> delta: 54609
>>
>> ----------
>>
>>
>>
>> Notice that we have a new 'top' result.  Finally, let's get all of the
>> results by setting row to something large, but I'll only show the first
>> result because that's all you need to see:
>>
>> GET
>>> /solr/clips/select?q=user%3Ad33af3cca29a43e63e8f6a52dfdd99a61f7b7906%20AND%20private%3A1&start=0&rows=1000&wt=json&sort=ctime
>>
>>
>>> title: HTTP cookie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
>>
>> ctime: 98701587317266
>>
>> delta: 0
>>
>> ----------
>>
>>
>>
>> We now get a record that we haven't seen yet.
>>
>>
>> I can confirm that when I get all of the results, they are in the properly
>> sorted order.  I also believe that any of my smaller result sets are also in
>> proper sort order.  However, it also appears that when I ask for a specific
>> number of row with a non-zero start start value, then the start index is not
>> handled correctly.  FWIW, these results don't' have anything to do with the
>> client library because I reproduced them over the REST interface.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> -- GWF
>>
>
>
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