Re: unique terms and multi-valued fields

2011-08-13 Thread Erick Erickson
to figure out how much my index size might grow. These fields I am dealing > with are large and repetitive (but mixed). > > > > From: Erick Erickson > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org; Kevin Osborn > Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 7:08 AM > Su

Re: unique terms and multi-valued fields

2011-08-11 Thread Kevin Osborn
Osborn Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 7:08 AM Subject: Re: unique terms and multi-valued fields Well, it depends (tm). If you're talking about *indexed* terms, then the value is stored only once in both the cases you mentioned below. There's really very little difference between a non-mu

Re: unique terms and multi-valued fields

2011-08-10 Thread Erick Erickson
Well, it depends (tm). If you're talking about *indexed* terms, then the value is stored only once in both the cases you mentioned below. There's really very little difference between a non-multi-valued field and a multi-valued field in terms of how it's stored in the searchable portion of the ind

unique terms and multi-valued fields

2011-08-09 Thread Kevin Osborn
Please verify my understanding. I have a field called "category" and it has a value "computers". If I use this same field and value for all of my documents, it is really only stored on disk once because "category:computers" is a unique term. Is this correct? But, what about multi-valued fields.