Re: Sort by date THEN by relevancy

Erick, Wow!! Thanks for the invaluable advice and sharing of your experience :) I greatly appreciate them. Alright, I think it really make the most sense to follow the path of least resistant first, then see if it really need optimization. Thanks a lot. ~KEGan On 9/30/06, Erick Erickson <[EM

Re: Sort by date THEN by relevancy

See below On 9/29/06, KEGan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Erick, Thanks for the great advice!! About closing/opening searcher on each request isnt this unavoidable in some cases? The application I am building will have users insert/search documents all the time. So for every insert, the sea

Re: Sort by date THEN by relevancy

Erick, Thanks for the great advice!! About closing/opening searcher on each request isnt this unavoidable in some cases? The application I am building will have users insert/search documents all the time. So for every insert, the searcher need to be recreated again, isnt it? Else new docume

Re: Sort by date THEN by relevancy

Sorting will inevitably have an impact on your speed, but it's impossible to generalize. FWIW, my app has 870K documents, the index is around 1.4G and search/sort times are fine. But even that statement is misleading. "Fine" means that the product manager for this product is satisfied with perform

Re: Sort by date THEN by relevancy

Erick, Ouch!! Please excuse the cut-n-paste ;) LIA mentions a lot about performance when doing sorting. Is it something to be cautious about? You mention doing 5 fields and it works ok, ... can share with us how many documents you are handling there with 5 fields ? Thanks. ~KEGan On 9/29/06,

Re: Sort by date THEN by relevancy

Yes. I do this with 5 fields and it works just fine. Although your cut-n-paste got kind of hard to read Erick On 9/29/06, KEGan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think I am going to answer my own question. Just use the *Sort*< file:///D:/library/apache/lucene-2.0.0/docs/api/org/apache/lucene

Re: Sort by date THEN by relevancy

I think I am going to answer my own question. Just use the *Sort* (SortField [] fields) *Sort* (String [] fields) This should do it right ? On 9/29/06, KEGan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have seen some sort examples in LIA.

Sort by date THEN by relevancy

Hi, I have seen some sort examples in LIA. But cant find what I am looking for. How do I sort document by date, AND for all the documents with the same date ... these are sorted by relavency. (Date has higher sort priority in this case). Thanks.