Lucene certainly supports multiple sort criteria, see
IndexSearcher.search, any one that takes a Sort
object. The Sort object can contain a list of fields where
any ties in the first N field(s) are decided by looking
at field N+1.
But, Ganesh, be a little careful about resolving by internal
Lucene
I don't think lucene will support multi sort.
If you look into org.apache.lucene.search.TopScoreDocCollector you may get
some feeling.
It use max heap to sort the document, and the score is one time calculate,
it it not first sort by time, then sort again by id.
When lucene sort below documents:
> Any thoughts on this?
Patience ...
> Is it good to use multiple sort fields?
Absolutely, if that's what you need. On the other hand, if you don't
need it then it's a bad idea.
> Using sort on docid will consume any memory?
Don't know. Certainly won't use less than not sorting this way.
>
Any thoughts on this?
Regards
Ganesh
- Original Message -
From: "Ganesh"
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Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 4:23 PM
Subject: [Bulk] Multiple sort field
Hello all,
I have more than one record having same time stamp. When i sort by date time in
decending order, the set of records which
