# Basic sort crashing in the search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-sort-crashing-in-the-search/6534>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 30, 2012, 6:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-sort-crashing-in-the-search/6534 "2012-01-30T06:58:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![narinder\_izap](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/narinder_izap/32/803_2.png) [@narinder\_izap](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/narinder_izap)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 6:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-sort-crashing-in-the-search/6534/1 "2012-01-30T06:58:55Z")

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Hi there, sorting was working fine in my system, but now its not crashing  
the query.

The query is as following:

{  
"query": {  
"match\_all": ""  
},  
"sort": {  
"time\_created": {  
"order": "desc"  
}  
}  
}

and here _time\_created_ is a _string_ datatype numeric value as it is \*  
timestamp\*, so it ensures the field will not be multivalued and its single  
for a single document. and the sorting was working fine, but not anymore.

can you tell me where is the problem??

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**Author:** ![Nick\_Hoffman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nick_hoffman/32/1872_2.png) [@Nick\_Hoffman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nick_Hoffman)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-sort-crashing-in-the-search/6534/2 "2012-01-31T00:54:54Z")

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Hey there, Narinder. It'd be a lot easier to help you if you post full curl  
commands for your settings, mapping, and a document.

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**Author:** ![rudygt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@rudygt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rudygt)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 4:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-sort-crashing-in-the-search/6534/3 "2012-01-31T04:15:52Z")

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Hi,

I think that you have a mistake in the match\_all, try this, let me  
know if works for you!, regards.

{  
"query": {  
"match\_all": { }  
},  
"sort": {  
"time\_created": {  
"order": "desc"  
}  
}  
}

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On Jan 30, 12:58 am, Narinder Kaur [narinder.k...@izap.in](mailto:narinder.k...@izap.in) wrote:

> Hi there, sorting was working fine in my system, but now its not crashing  
> the query.
> 
> The query is as following:
> 
> {  
> "query": {  
> "match\_all": ""  
> },  
> "sort": {  
> "time\_created": {  
> "order": "desc"  
> }  
> }
> 
> }
> 
> and here _time\_created_ is a _string_ datatype numeric value as it is \*  
> timestamp\*, so it ensures the field will not be multivalued and its single  
> for a single document. and the sorting was working fine, but not anymore.
> 
> can you tell me where is the problem??

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/basic-sort-crashing-in-the-search/6534/4 "2017-07-06T03:41:01Z")

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