[Xapian-discuss] Sort by docid

[Marco Tabini]

On 6/29/05 1:02 PM, "Olly Betts" <olly at survex.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:14:34PM -0400, Marco Tabini wrote:
> 
> The answer is to use Enquire::set_docid_order to set BoolWeight as the
> weighting scheme.  This is suggested in the API docs for set_docid_order
> but it could be more explicit:
> 
>     Note: If you add documents in strict date order, then a boolean search
>     with set_docid_order(Xapian::Enquire::DESCENDING) is a very efficient
>     way to perform "sort by date, newest first".
> 

Thanks. I missed the bit about how to set the search to Boolean mode :)

Cheers,


Marco

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