See below. On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Thomas Koch <tho...@koch.ro> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm indexing feeds and websites referenced by the feeds. So I have as text > fields: > title - from the feed entries title > description - from the feed entries description > text - the websites text > > When the user doesn't define a default search field, then all three fields > should be used for search. And I need to have highlighting. However it > should > still be possible to search only in title or description. > > - Do I need a catchall text field with content copied from all text fields? > This is a common way to do this. You could also write custom code to munge the query, but there's no need to go there as a first option, I'd only think about this if you have problems with the catchall approach. > - Do I need to store the content in the catchall field as well as in the > individual fields to get highlighting in every case? > No. You don't display the catchall field, so you don't need to store it. > - Isn't it a big waste of hard disc space to store the content two times? > > Disk space is cheap. It really depends upon how much data you're storing whether you care. 100M - who cares? 100G - lotsa people care...... But you don't have to so it's a moot point. HTH Erick > Thanks for any help, > > Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro >
