[Xapian-discuss] Result Priorities

James Aylett james-xapian at tartarus.org
Mon Sep 6 09:38:52 BST 2004


On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:42:46AM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:

> > * Another method (some way to sort on a stored value, maybe)?
> 
> Currently documents which compare equal when sorting are ordered by
> document id (you can choose increasing or decreasing).  It wouldn't
> be too hard to allow relevance order to be used when the sort compares
> equal.

It strikes me that having relevance as the implicit second sort key
here would almost always be more useful than document id. At the very
least it should probably be an option - does anyone disagree with me,
or can it go on the list?

J

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