Hi Pat,
the attribute def is like
         has signed_int
I went through some code and found that Sphinx 9.8 does not have
anything for signed ints.... 9.9 is coming with that but still a RC. I
gotta use this in prod environment. Is it advisable ?

On Mar 31, 4:38 am, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
> What's your define_index block looking like, and which field/attribute  
> are you sorting by? It might be a limitation in Sphinx, which I'm  
> almost certain isn't too friendly to negative integers - it likes  
> unsigned ints.
>
> --
> Pat
>
> On 31/03/2009, at 2:25 AM, vk wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Pat,
>
> > I am facing this issue for negative integers. When sorting
> > with :sort_mode => :desc, negative ints come first.
>
> >> On 11/03/2009, at 12:37 AM, Martin wrote:
>
> >>> Hi
> >>> I like to order a search request by an integer field. But when I  
> >>> do so
> >>> the order (comments_count) is 1, 11, 2 and not 1, 2, 11. How can I
> >>> define the index that the field can be ordered like an integer and  
> >>> not
> >>> a string?
>
> >>> My articles model right now:
> >>> define_index do
> >>>  indexes title, :sortable => true
> >>>  indexes comments_count, :as => :comments, :sortable => true
> >>> end
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