Re: performance between ExternalFileField and Join

2012-03-06 Thread Chris Hostetter
: unique terms) but I agree with Erik on the ExternalFileField as you can use : it just inside a function query, for example, for boosting. with {!frange} it would be trivial to filter based on values in an ExternalFileField ... whether that would be *faster* then a custom plugin that worked sim

Re: performance between ExternalFileField and Join

2012-03-01 Thread Tommaso Teofili
Also regarding the Join functionality I remember Yonik pointed out it's O(# unique terms) but I agree with Erik on the ExternalFileField as you can use it just inside a function query, for example, for boosting. Tommaso 2012/3/1 Erick Erickson > Hmmm. ExternalFileFields can only be float values,

Re: performance between ExternalFileField and Join

2012-03-01 Thread Erick Erickson
Hmmm. ExternalFileFields can only be float values, so I'm not sure "the necessary data" is straight-forward. Additionally, they are used in function queries. Does this still work? I really don't know the performance characteristics if, say, you have users with access to all documents for SOLR-2272