Sorting field type fix

[hextraza]

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[bbimber]

hey - I dont know what to make of this test failing on sqlserver but not postgres. this error about backwards-codecs doesnt make a lot of sense as a single-platform issue: https://teamcity.labkey.org/buildConfiguration/LabKey_2311Release_External_Discvr_ExternalModulesTestPostgres/3077089?hideTestsFromDependencies=false&hideProblemsFromDependencies=false&expandBuildDeploymentsSection=false&expandBuildChangesSection=true&expandBuildTestsSection=true.

if this is something related to the DISCVR-seq index now using lucene 3.10, while LK 23.11 uses 3.8, we could just target 24.3 again. however, since this passed on 1/2 agents it doesnt seem like it should be platform specific and it might be a fluke.

I rebased this branch, which should re-trigger the tests to run again

[bbimber]

ah, please disregard my comment on github about platform-specific-ness. i think the failure of postgres (a linux machine) and the tests that can trigger this only run on linux machines