Thanks much, Erick. Between your explanation, and what I read at
http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/positionIncrementGap-in-schema-xml-td488338.html,
the utility of multiValued fields is clear.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Erick Erickson wrote:
> multiValued has nothing to do with how many to
multiValued has nothing to do with how many tokens are in the field,
it's just whether you can call document.add("field1", val1) more than
once on the same field. Or, equivalently, in input document in XML
has two entries with the same name="field" entries. So it
strictly depends upon whether you