On Wednesday 17 November 2004 17:29, Palmer, Andrew MMI Woking wrote: > > Hi, > > I have been using Lucene now for about 4 years (pre Jakarta) and the > system has worked fine. > One feature that would be nice for my development would be the ability > to sort the index by a particular field. > > There has been a marked performance improvement when the index is sorted > in the same order I am extracting the Documents. I do not use a Query > as some of the selections would not be easy to describe this way. > > I have been doing the sort in my current code, but it takes a long time > as it involves adding the records to the end of the index (in the > correct order) and then deleting any duplicated records. > > > This sorting would be very useful to me, and save a fair bit of running > time.
You could also first collect all doc numbers that need to be retrieved, sort them, and then retrieve your documents in sorted order. Regards, Paul --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]