No problem. A document without a value for some field simply doesn't have an entry in the inverted index.
> 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
