> There can be an impact if you are searching against a lot of fields or if > you are indexing a lot of fields on every document, but for the most part in > most applications it is negligible. >
We index a lot of fields at one time, but we can tolerate the performance impact at index time. It probably can't hurt to be more streamlined, but without knowing more > about your model, it's hard to say. I've built apps that were totally > dynamic field based and they worked just fine, but these were more for > discovery than just pure search. In other words, the user was interacting > with the system in a reflective model that selected which fields to search > on. > Our application is as much about discovery as search, so this is good to know. Thanks for the feedback. It was very helpful. -- A. Steven Anderson Independent Consultant st...@asanderson.com
