That was a general comment on SOLR string types. Mostly I wanted to prompt Rico to try some searching before getting too hung up on indexing refinements. I'd far rather demo a prototype being able to say "Dates don't work yet, but you can search" than "searching is broken to pieces, but dates work fine!".....
FWIW Erick On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote: > > how SOLR-savvy you are, so pardon if this is something you already know. >> But >> lots of people trip up over the "string" field type, which is NOT >> tokenized. >> You usually want "text" unless it's some sort of ID.... So it might be >> worth >> it to do some searching earlier rather than later <G>.... >> >> > Why would you want to tokenize a yyyy-mm-dd value? > > I'm liking the 'string' type. If you do yyyy-mm-dd, then you can even sort > properly, and range query with endpoints also specified as yyyy-mm-dd, no? > > Okay, I'll stop spamming the thread now, heh. > > Jonathan > >
