It's probably not accurate to say that a lot of sites were *relying* on that feature. It's an optimization.
Getting a working patch applying to trunk is on my TODO-list within the next couple months. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-752 "Watch" the issue to see when I get to it. ~ David Smiley Author: http://www.packtpub.com/solr-1-4-enterprise-search-server/ On Apr 15, 2011, at 12:56 PM, Charlie Jackson wrote: > I know I'm late to the party, but I recently learned that field compression > was removed as of Solr 1.4.1. I think a lot of sites were relying on that > feature, so I'm curious what people are doing now that it's gone. > Specifically, what are people doing to efficiently store *and highlight* > large fulltext fields? I can think of ways to store the text efficiently > (compress it myself), or highlight it (leave it uncompressed), but not both > at the same time. > > Also, is anyone working on anything to restore compression to Solr? I > understand it was removed because Lucene removed support for it, but I was > hoping to upgrade my site to 3.1 soon and we rely on that feature. > > - Charlie
