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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-7537: -------------------------------------------- Hmm, I think we can take an alternate approach that does not add need to add new {{SortField.Type}} enum values, by extending {{IWC.setIndexSort]} to also allow {{SortedSetSortField}} and {{SortedNumericSortField}}? When serializing, we would need to check for those specific classes, and also serialize/deserialize their selectors. > Add multi valued field support to index sorting > ----------------------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-7537 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7537 > Project: Lucene - Core > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: core/index > Reporter: Ferenczi Jim > Attachments: LUCENE-7537.patch > > > Today index sorting can be done on single valued field through the > NumericDocValues (for numerics) and SortedDocValues (for strings). > I'd like to add the ability to sort on multi valued fields. Since index > sorting does not accept custom comparator we could just take the minimum > value of each document for an ascending sort and the maximum value for a > descending sort. > This way we could handle all cases instead of throwing an exception during a > merge when we encounter a multi valued DVs. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org