: ok i was looking at RandomSortField and got confused by "As long as the : index version remains unchanged, and the same field name is reused, the : ordering of the docs will be consistent. " So does that mean it's not really : random if I'm hitting an index which doesn't have an update for a while?
it means that you get a consistent random ordering for each field against each version of the index. if you want a completely new random ordering every time, use a new field name everytime (configured with a dynamic field) "sort=random_1234 desc" will be a differnet random ordering then "sort=random_9876 desc" even if they index hasn't changed. -Hoss
