Possible to do an indexorder sort over a MultiSearcher?

2011-10-25 Thread Alexander Devine
Hi all, I'm an trying to provide a way to efficiently allow a client to page over all of the documents in multiple Lucene indexes that I'm querying with a MultiSearcher (~1-2 million docs). Unfortunately, I can't use the standard paging algorithm of getting TopDocs to the last record needed and th

Re: advice on using Lucene for sorting based on payloads

2008-10-07 Thread Alexander Devine
]> wrote: > Not sure if I fully get it, but bear with me... > > Inline below. > > On Oct 6, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Alexander Devine wrote: > > Hi Luceners, >> >> I have a particular sorting problem and I wanted some advice on what the >> best implementation

advice on using Lucene for sorting based on payloads

2008-10-06 Thread Alexander Devine
Hi Luceners, I have a particular sorting problem and I wanted some advice on what the best implementation approach would be. We currently use Lucene as the searching engine for our vacation rental website. Each vacation rental property is represented by a single document in Lucene. We want to add