I am new to lucene, and trying to perform a sorted query on a list of people's names. Lucene seem unable to properly sort on the name field of my indexed documents. If I sort by the other (shorter) fields, it seems to work fine. The name sort seems to be close, almost like the last few iterations through the sort loop are not being done. The records are obviously not in the normally random order, but not fully sorted either. I have tried different ways of sorting, including a SortField array/object with the field cast as a string.
The index I am sorting has about 1.2 million documents. Are their known limitations in the sorting functionality that I am running into? I can provide more details if needed. Thanks for any help, -Pete