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Changed the order of the example slightly to make it more understandable.

Added 2 missing key points:

  • Multiple sort options act as tie breakers
  • The order of those matter

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thekofimensah commented Mar 19, 2025

@georgewallace Do you know someone that can confirm this:

By default, Elasticsearch sorts numeric fields in descending order and string fields in ascending order

I couldn't find this anywhere (and it should be in this doc)

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Pinging @elastic/es-docs (Team:Docs)

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@leemthompo leemthompo merged commit 08beb53 into elastic:main Apr 14, 2025
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georgewallace added a commit to georgewallace/elasticsearch that referenced this pull request Apr 14, 2025
* Added explanation of sort order and default behavior

* Update docs/reference/elasticsearch/rest-apis/sort-search-results.md

Co-authored-by: Liam Thompson <[email protected]>

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Co-authored-by: George Wallace <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Liam Thompson <[email protected]>
elasticsearchmachine pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 14, 2025
* Added explanation of sort order and default behavior

* Update docs/reference/elasticsearch/rest-apis/sort-search-results.md



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Co-authored-by: Kofi B <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Liam Thompson <[email protected]>
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