On 3/26/07, nick19701 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But here the "signature" field has field type "string". when you index it, you put the whole string somewhere and give it an id, for example, 323454. In a doc, you only need to reference this id 323454 if the doc happens to contain the same signature value. Now suppose I have a lot of docs with same signature and signature is a very long string. It seems to me indexing the signature will save me hard disk space. In short, what I mean is that if you index a "string" field, you can retrieve it without loss. So you don't need to store it separately. what do you think?
In theory that might be true, but lucene is not implemented that way, I'm afraid. If this is the a priori situation, it is probably easier to implement this outside of lucene and "store" the id in your external index. -Mike
