I believe the difference is that an sint is mangled in such a way that it will sort properly (i.e. during a range query) where as a regular integer is not. Since everything is stored as a string in lucene, sorting by numbers happens lexicographically which may not be the same as an ordinal sort. The sint datatype will ensure this ordinal sort by some mangling of the characters (hence if you look at an sint from the lucene index it looks like garbage). Hope that helps Amit
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Jonathan Haddad <j...@letsgetnuts.com>wrote: > What are the differences between using an sint and an integer, aside > from the range queries on sint? If I've indexed a field as an > integer, and I try to sort on it, will there be performance problem? > > About 1.5 million documents in index. > -- > Jonathan Haddad > http://www.rustyrazorblade.com >
