Sorting on strings and the "missing" property

Hey guys. If the "missing" option is provided in a string-sort, why does ES
generate an error instead of simply ignoring the option?

missing is not supported for String values (currently), only for numeric
values. Can you gist the error you get?

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 6:30 AM, Nick Hoffman nick@deadorange.com wrote:

Hey guys. If the "missing" option is provided in a string-sort, why does
ES generate an error instead of simply ignoring the option?

Sure thing, mate. Here it is:

On Wednesday, 16 November 2011 09:21:14 UTC-5, kimchy wrote:

missing is not supported for String values (currently), only for numeric
values. Can you gist the error you get?

So if I want the documents with a null value for the sort-field to be at
the end of the results, must that be done after retrieving the results from
ES?