On 3/26/07, nick19701 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<field name="signature" type="string" indexed="false" stored="true" compressed="true"/> <field name="signature" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" compressed="true"/> I don't need to search the "signature" field. But my intuition tells me that if I index this field, I will use less hard disk space since a lot of docs may have the same signature. Am I right?
Storing and indexing are completely disjoint: indexing is a lossy operation, so if you want to be able retrieve the original contents, they must be stored separately (ie., the first option uses the least space). -MIke