Jamie, Does the bug you mentioned below still exist?
Thanks, Otis --- Jamie M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > I've checked the current jakarta-lucene code out from > cvs and tried out the new sorting functionality. It > appears that there is a bug when multiple documents > have the same relative sort order. > > When FieldSortedHitQueue builds its array of relative > sort orders for each doc it skips any documents with > the same relative sort order of a document it has > already seen, giving them the default sort order of > zero, which means they end up being at the top of any > result list. > > Attached is a junit test case which shows this bug, > and a patch which fixes it. I've only aimed for a > functional fix, and haven't tested whether the > performance of the patched code differs from that of > the current code. > > I see that Tim Jones recently submitted some patches > which further extend the sorting functionality and > also render my bugfix redundant. However, since the > sort code with the bug is currently in cvs, and Tim's > new code isn't I figured I should submit this anyway - > even if it just serves to speed up the inclusion of > Tim's patches which I eagerly await :-) > > regards, > > jamie > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/x-gzip-compressed name=sort-patch.tar.gz > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]