On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd try several things.... > > 1> just because you an sort has nothing to do with whether the field is > returned. Sorting uses the indexed data, returning it is the stored data. > So it's a bit of a red herring when you can sort on a field but not see it, > although it is a good test that your schema knows about the field. >
Right, the only thing that I was testing for is that the field is recognised by Solr. If I had a typo in the field name in the query or in the schema, Solr would have complained. > 2> Try fl=* just for yucks. > yuck, yuck, but didn't work! > 3> Check your schema.xml for typos. stroed="true" for instance? No, tried that. Good thinking, though. > 4> Why are you restricting your returns to 1 and only one document? Are you > absolutely sure that that document has the new field? Solr happily sorts > documents that do not have a value for a field, that's the purpose of > sortMissingFirst/Last. > All the newest documents have the field, and I'm sorting by time descending. In fact, I did test with more rows, but for the mailing list I wanted the output to be concise. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com
