Thanks guys. I read (and actually digested this time) how multivalued fields work and now realize my question came from a 'structured language/dbms' background. The multivalued field is stored basically as a single value with extra spacing between terms (the positionIncrementGap previously mentioned).
So the difference between a single value text field and multi value is (in a simplification): single: "term term term term" mutli: "term term term term" If I wasn't heads down 12 hours a day trying to keep ahead of the requirement changes...I might actually learn this thing :). Thanks again. Ken -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Single-value-vs-multi-value-setting-in-tokenized-field-tp2268635p2294658.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.