diff --git a/solr/example/solr/conf/schema.xml b/solr/example/solr/conf/schema.xml
index d031f99e7e2..563b6732ae6 100755
--- a/solr/example/solr/conf/schema.xml
+++ b/solr/example/solr/conf/schema.xml
@@ -73,9 +73,8 @@
     <!--Binary data type. The data should be sent/retrieved in as Base64 encoded Strings -->
     <fieldtype name="binary" class="solr.BinaryField"/>
 
-    <!-- The optional sortMissingLast and sortMissingFirst attributes are
-         currently supported on types that are sorted internally as strings.
-	       This includes "string","boolean","sint","slong","sfloat","sdouble","pdate"
+    <!--  sortMissingLast and sortMissingFirst attributes are optional attributes
+          that control how fields are sorted when values are missing.
        - If sortMissingLast="true", then a sort on this field will cause documents
          without the field to come after documents with the field,
          regardless of the requested sort order (asc or desc).
@@ -140,11 +139,10 @@
 
     <!--
       Note:
-      These should only be used for compatibility with existing indexes (created with older Solr versions)
-      or if "sortMissingFirst" or "sortMissingLast" functionality is needed. Use Trie based fields instead.
+      These should only be used for compatibility with existing indexes (created with lucene or older Solr versions).
 
       Plain numeric field types that store and index the text
-      value verbatim (and hence don't support range queries, since the
+      value verbatim (and hence don't correctly support range queries, since the
       lexicographic ordering isn't equal to the numeric ordering)
     -->
     <fieldType name="pint" class="solr.IntField" omitNorms="true"/>
@@ -153,23 +151,6 @@
     <fieldType name="pdouble" class="solr.DoubleField" omitNorms="true"/>
     <fieldType name="pdate" class="solr.DateField" sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true"/>
 
-
-    <!--
-      Note:
-      These should only be used for compatibility with existing indexes (created with older Solr versions)
-      or if "sortMissingFirst" or "sortMissingLast" functionality is needed. Use Trie based fields instead.
-
-      Numeric field types that manipulate the value into
-      a string value that isn't human-readable in its internal form,
-      but with a lexicographic ordering the same as the numeric ordering,
-      so that range queries work correctly.
-    -->
-    <fieldType name="sint" class="solr.SortableIntField" sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true"/>
-    <fieldType name="slong" class="solr.SortableLongField" sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true"/>
-    <fieldType name="sfloat" class="solr.SortableFloatField" sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true"/>
-    <fieldType name="sdouble" class="solr.SortableDoubleField" sortMissingLast="true" omitNorms="true"/>
-
-
     <!-- The "RandomSortField" is not used to store or search any
          data.  You can declare fields of this type it in your schema
          to generate pseudo-random orderings of your docs for sorting