Thanks Erik!
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 11, 2008, at 9:28 PM, Jake Conk wrote: >> >> I was wondering what are the differences in certain field types? For >> instance what's the difference between the following? >> >> integer / sint >> float / sfloat > > The difference is the internal representation of the String value of the > term representing the numbers. The "s" prefix means the terms are sortable, > in that they are in ascending _numerical_ (not textual) order within the > index. > >> text / textzh > > Looks like maybe you're picking up an acts_as_solr schema (which uses > text_zh, though). "zh" is the country code for China... and that field type > is likely configured to use a Chinese-savvy analyzer. > >> Also, if I have two dynamic fields for instance *_facet and *_facet_mv >> which both have the type set to string does it really matter which one >> I use? > > If the field types are identical, then no it won't matter which you use - > the same thing will happen internally. > > Erik > >
