[Xapian-discuss] searching and sorting by date

[Michel Pelletier]

I hope I'm not beating a dead horse here, but we recently started 
evaluating xapian and Xapwrap (python wrapper around it) for our project 
and I've been quickly trying to soak up a lot of the docs and concepts, 
so I hope I can explain my question clearly.

We have a use case where we must return the first 50 most recent 
documents that match our query.  We don't want the first 50 matches to 
the query that are then sorted by date.  I hope the distinction is clear 
enough.  What we are unsure of from reading the documents is if setting 
a sort value on our query (enq.set_sort_by_value()) will return the 
first 50 documents that match the query, or the first 50 matches, then 
sorted by that value.

I've read a couple of the theads on sorting dates but I was unclear 
which approach would be needed to successfuly execute this kind of 
query.  Any help from a kind xapian soul would be much apreciated!  We 
love what xapian has been able to do for us so far, and hopefully there 
is a fairly easy way to do this kind of search.

Thanks!

-Michel