Re: field normalization and omitNorms

2008-05-28 Thread Mike Klaas
On 27-May-08, at 3:16 PM, Phillip Farber wrote: Hi all, I've been looking without success for a simple explanation of the effect of omitNorms=false for a text field. Can someone point me to the relevant doc? The length of the field, as well as field and document boosts, will not affec

Re: field normalization and omitNorms

2008-05-28 Thread Christian Vogler
On Wednesday 28 May 2008 01:37:57 Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > If you have tokenized fields of variable size and you want the field length > to affect the relevance score, then you do not want to omit norms. > Omitting norms is good for fields where length is of no importance (e.g. > gender="Male" vs

Re: field normalization and omitNorms

2008-05-27 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
es you heap/RAM, one byte per doc per field without norms, I believe. Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch - Original Message > From: Phillip Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 6:16:58 PM

field normalization and omitNorms

2008-05-27 Thread Phillip Farber
Hi all, I've been looking without success for a simple explanation of the effect of omitNorms=false for a text field. Can someone point me to the relevant doc? What is the effect of omitNorms=false on index size and query performance for say 200K documents that have s single large text fiel