On Jun 4, 2009, at 6:42 AM, Erick Erickson wrote:
It *will* cause performance issues if you load that field for a large number of documents on a particular search. I know Lucene itself has lazy field loading that helps in this case, but I don't know how to persuade SOLR to use it (it may even lazy-load automatically). But this is separate from searching...
Lazy loading is an option configured in the solrconfig.xml
