hi all, What are the cost of unused field types?
Our application supports multiple languages. We envision separate Lucene/Solr fields (and field types) per language (conten_en, content_fr, content_zh_CN,etc). We thought of a few optons: a) auto-generating the 'multilingual' portion of the schema based on the application's languages, b) include fields-and-types for all languagues In A, if an implemenation only used French and Chinese, the schema would only have content_en and conten_zh_CN fields-and-types. In B, the implementation would have all field types, but a give document would only have two fields A seems "more efficiient", but less work. The downside: if a user wants to add a language, they would need to regenerate the schema (i.e. add fields-and-types for "ja") How much do empty field types and fields? Do a dozen-or-so unused field types hurt scalability of indexing or search? thanks, will
