Geoff, Whether synonyms are applied at index time or query time is controlled via schema.xml - it depends on where you put the synonym factory, whether in the index-time or query-time section of a fieldType. Synonyms are read once on start, I believe. It might be good to have them read at index reader open time, as is done with elevate component...
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Geoffrey Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Thursday, May 1, 2008 7:47:16 PM > Subject: Re: token concat filter? > > > > Yonik Seeley wrote: > > If there are only a few such cases, it might be better to use synonyms > > to correct them. > > unfortunately, there are too many to handle this way. > > > Off the top of my head there's no concatenating token filter, but it > > wouldn't be hard to make one. > > hmm, ok. I'm not a java guy, so I'll try the PatternTokenizerFactory > before trying to write my own. thanks :) > > speaking of synonyms... will changes to synonyms.txt (and the other > files) take affect on each re-indexing, or does the solr server read it > once on load then hold on to it until restart? > > --Geoff >