2 files changed, 2 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/amazon/carbonado/qe/OrderingScore.java b/src/main/java/com/amazon/carbonado/qe/OrderingScore.java
index a2b46b9..ce85cb6 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/amazon/carbonado/qe/OrderingScore.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/amazon/carbonado/qe/OrderingScore.java
@@ -224,13 +224,6 @@ public class OrderingScore<S extends Storable> {
             }
 
             // Property not handled and not an identity filter.
-
-            if (property.getDirection() == UNSPECIFIED) {
-                // Specify a direction in order for a comparator to be later
-                // created from remainder orderings.
-                property = property.direction(ASCENDING);
-            }
-
             remainderProperties.add(property);
             indexPos = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
         }
@@ -324,9 +317,7 @@ public class OrderingScore<S extends Storable> {
 
     /**
      * Returns the ordering properties that the evaluated index does not
-     * support. The list of orderings is reduced to eliminate redundancies. If
-     * any remainder ordering properties originally had an unspecified
-     * direction, the direction in this list is specified as ascending.
+     * support. The list of orderings is reduced to eliminate redundancies.
      *
      * @return remainder orderings, never null
      */
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/amazon/carbonado/qe/TestOrderingScore.java b/src/test/java/com/amazon/carbonado/qe/TestOrderingScore.java
index 25e9489..83b2364 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/amazon/carbonado/qe/TestOrderingScore.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/amazon/carbonado/qe/TestOrderingScore.java
@@ -594,6 +594,6 @@ public class TestOrderingScore extends TestCase {
 
         assertEquals("-id", score.getHandledOrderings().get(0).toString());
         assertEquals("-intProp", score.getHandledOrderings().get(1).toString());
-        assertEquals("+longProp", score.getRemainderOrderings().get(0).toString());
+        assertEquals("~longProp", score.getRemainderOrderings().get(0).toString());
     }
 }