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Yonik Seeley commented on LUCENE-916:
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IMO, auto sorting should pretty much never be used.
Applications should know the types of their fields, and should not let Lucene 
guess (it will sometimes guess incorrectly).


> It is not possible to sort with sorttype auto on a field that does not exist
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-916
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-916
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Search
>    Affects Versions: 1.9, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.1, 2.2
>            Reporter: Daan de Wit
>         Attachments: TestMultiSearcherAutoSort.java
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> When sorting with type auto on a field that does not exist, a 
> RuntimeException is thrown from FieldCacheImpl.java line 346. This is 
> especially a problem when using MultiSearcher. This issue is related to: 
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-374

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