On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Arv <aravind.na...@vsc.ph> wrote: > > All, > We are considering some new changes to our Solr schema to better support > some new functionality for our application. To that extent, we want to add > an additional field that is multi-valued, but will contain a large number > of > values per document. Potentially up to 2000 values on this field per > document. > > Questions: > - Is this wise?
Depends :) > > - Though we will not be faceting on this field, are there any implications > for performance? Should be ok but benchmark it to be sure. > > - I understand that the XML in/out will be large, and we may need to stop > this field being sent back on every query, as this field is essentially > used > as a filter only. > You can do that with the "fl" request parameter. If you don't need it back ever, don't "store" it. You mentioned in a later mail that these are catalogue ids stored for each product. I guess the number of unique ids across all documents should not be that much? If yes, you may breathe easier. -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
