On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:23 PM, chetan <guptakache...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is the difference between setting a fields type to string vs setting it > to text. > > e.g. > <field name="PATH" type="string" indexed="false" stored="true"/> > or > <field name="PATH" type="text" indexed="false" stored="true"/> [...]
Please take a closer look at the fieldType definitions towards the beginning of the default schema.xml. The "text" type has tokenizers, and analyzers applied to it, while the "string" type does no processing of the input data. Regards, Gora
