I tried searching for an answer to my question but haven't found anything relevant.
When I query solr and sort by a given field in ASCENDING order, the records which do not have a value for this field (i.e. null) appear AFTER the valued records. The records that have an empty string for the field appear BEFORE the valued records. This produces a visually inconsistent result. example: sort by x asc empty empty value value empty (because null) empty (because null) Logically, all the empty values should appear before the non-empty values when sorting ascending. I could make all the null fields into empty strings but this seems like a waste of resources. Is there some setting in solr to force null fields to appear before valued fields when sorting in ascending order? Thank you -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Inconsistent-Sort-order-for-empty-and-null-fields-tp3096175p3096175.html Sent from the Lucene - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
