Is there a way to have the max_side field only in Solr ...as in a conditional copyField or something like that?
I'd like to push as much of this into Solr as I can because the app and db that Solr is indexing are not really the best place to add this type of functionality. ----- Original Message ---- From: Koji Sekiguchi <k...@r.email.ne.jp> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 4:04:29 AM Subject: Re: Solr Query help - sorting Hi Erik Earle, Ahh, I read your mail too fast... Erik Hatcher's method should work. Thanks! Koji Erik Hatcher wrote: > You couldn't sort on a multiValued field though. > > I'd simply index a max_side field, and have the indexing client add a > single valued field with max(length,width) to it. Then sort on max_side. > > Erik > > On Aug 25, 2009, at 4:00 AM, Constantijn Visinescu wrote: > >> make a new multivalued field in your schema.xml, copy both width and >> length >> into that field, and then sort on that field ? >> >> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:40 AM, erikea...@yahoo.com >> <erikea...@yahoo.com>wrote: >> >>> Clever... but if more than one row adds up to the same value I may >>> get the >>> wrong order (like 50, 50 and 10, 90) >>> >>> I need a max function but the one provided only compares against a >>> constant. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Aug 24, 2009, at 6:15 PM, Koji Sekiguchi <k...@r.email.ne.jp> wrote: >>> >>> How about using sum() FunctionQuery, via: >>> >>> http://localhost:8983/solr/select/?q=_val_%3A%22sum%28width%2Clength%29%22 >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Koji >>> >>> >>> Erik Earle wrote: >>> Suppose I have a database of rectangle attributes that I have >>> indexed in >>> Solr and I want to get the top 10 widest or longest rectangles from one >>> query. >>> >>> >>> name | width | length >>> A | 100 | 10 >>> B | 10 | 90 >>> C | 80 | 10 >>> ... >>> >>> >>> My indexed fields are: name, width, length >>> >>> Is there a way to query so that my data returns the order: A, B, C >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > >
