It depends. copyField may be good if you want to copy into a Soundex field, and then boost the sounded field lower than the tokenized field.
What are you trying to do ? On 8/22/11 11:14 AM, "Tom" <springmeth...@gmail.com> wrote: >Is it a good rule of thumb, that when dealing with large indexes copyField >should not be used. It seems to duplicate the indexing of data. > >You don't need copyField to be able to search on multiple fields. >Example, >if I have two fields: title and post and I want to search on both, I could >just query >title:<word> OR post:<word> > >So it seems to me if you have lot's of data and a large indexes, copyField >should be avoided. > >Any thoughts? > >-- >View this message in context: >http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/copyField-for-big-indexes-tp3275712p327 >5712.html >Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.