Seconding question. Also, is it possible that it changed between versions 1.0 and 1.2? We're trying to upgrade and noticed a seemingly random order of documents with equal relevance in regression testing.
On Wednesday, 14 May 2014 00:49:55 UTC, Erich Lin wrote: > > Ignoring the bouncing results problem with multiple shards , is the order > of results deterministic when sorting by relevance score or any other > field. > > What I mean by this is if two documents have the same score, > > 1) will they always be in the same order if we set the preference > parameter to an arbitrary string like the user’s session ID. > 2) If so, is there a way to predict this deterministic order? Is it done > by ID of the documents as a tiebreaker etc? > 3) If not, could we specify that or do we have to do a secondary sort on > ID if we wanted to do that? > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/284b6bfd-68aa-4717-ab52-73d44f7cc196%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
