On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Ron Mayer <r...@0ape.com> wrote: > I have some documents with a bunch of attachments (images, thumbnails > for them, audio clips, word docs, etc); and am currently dealing with > them by just putting a path on a filesystem to them in solr; and then > jumping through hoops of keeping them in sync with solr. > >
Not sure why that is an issue. Keeping them in sync with solr would be the same as storing within a file-system. Why would storing within solr be any different. > Would it be nuts to stick the image data itself in solr? > > More specifically - if I have a bunch of large stored fields, > would it significantly impact search performance in the > cases when those fields aren't fetched. > > Hard to say. Assume you mean storing by converting into a base64 format. If you do not retrieve the field when fetching, AFAIK should not affect it significantly, if at all. So if you manage your retrieval should be fine. > Searches are very common in this system, and it's very rare > that someone actually opens up one of these attachments > so I'm not really worried about the time it takes to fetch > them when someone does actually want one. > >
