Re: Consequences for using multivalued on all fields

2010-12-22 Thread Erick Erickson
7; > > > EARTH has a Right To Life, > otherwise we all die. > > > > - Original Message > From: kenf_nc > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Tue, December 21, 2010 6:07:51 AM > Subject: Re: Consequences for using multivalued on all fields > >

Re: Consequences for using multivalued on all fields

2010-12-21 Thread Dennis Gearon
ge From: kenf_nc To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Tue, December 21, 2010 6:07:51 AM Subject: Re: Consequences for using multivalued on all fields I have about 30 million documents and with the exception of the Unique ID, Type and a couple of date fields, every document is made of dynamic f

Re: Consequences for using multivalued on all fields

2010-12-21 Thread Geert-Jan Brits
You should be aware that the behavior of sorting on a multi-valued field is undefined. After all, which of the multiple values should be used for sorting? So if you need sorting on the field, you shouldn't make it multi-valued. Geert-Jan 2010/12/21 J.J. Larrea > Someone please correct me if I a

Re: Consequences for using multivalued on all fields

2010-12-21 Thread J.J. Larrea
Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but as far as I am aware index format is identical in either case. One benefit of allowing one to specify a field as single-valued is similar to specifying that a field is required: Providing a safeguard that index data conforms to requirements. So maki

Re: Consequences for using multivalued on all fields

2010-12-21 Thread kenf_nc
I have about 30 million documents and with the exception of the Unique ID, Type and a couple of date fields, every document is made of dynamic fields. Now, I only have maybe 1 in 5 being multi-value, but search and facet performance doesn't look appreciably different from a fixed schema solution.