Hi all, We have recently switched to using edismax + qf fields, and no longer use copyfields to allow us to easily search over values in multiple fields (by copying multiple fields' values to the copyfield destinations, and then performing queries over the destination field).
By removing the copyfields, we've found that our index sizes have reduced by ~40% in some cases, which is great! We're just curious now as to exactly how this can be ... My question is, given the following two schemas, if we index some data to the "description" field, will the index for schema1 be twice as large as the index of schema2? (I guess this relates to how, internally, Solr stores field + index data) Old way -- schema1: ======= <field name="description type="text_general" indexed="true" multiValued="false"/> <field name="default_field" type="text_general" indexed="true" multiValued="false" /> <copyField source="description" dest="default_field /> New way -- schema2: ======= <field name="description type="text_general" indexed="true" multiValued="false"/> Many thanks and kind regards, Edd
