See belowl On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Bing Li <lbl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a question when sorting retrieved data from Solr. As I know, Lucene > retrieves data according to the degree of keyword matching on text field > (partial matching). > > If I search data by string field (complete matching), how does Lucene sort > the retrieved data? > If scores match exactly, which may well be the case here, then the tiebreaker is internal Lucene document id.
> If I add some filters, such as time, what about the sorting way? > It doesn't. Filters only restrict the result set, they have no influence on sorting > If I just need to top ones, is it proper to just add rows? > I don't understand what you're asking. If you want the top 100 rather than the top 10, yes you can increase the &rows parameter or page (see &start). > If I want to add new sorting ways, how to do that? See the &sort parameter. This page comes up as the first google search on "solr sort".... http://lucene.apache.org/solr/tutorial.html Best Erick > > Thanks so much! > Bing
