Thanks Chris ! Will try out the second approach you suggested and share my findings.
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org>wrote: > > : > Would highly appreciate if someone can suggest other efficient ways to > : > address this kind of a requirement. > > one approach would be to index each attachment as it's own document and > search those. you could then use things like the group collapsing > features to return onlly the "main" type documents when multiple > attachments match. > > similarly: you could still index each "main" document with a giant > text field containing all of the attachment text, *and* you could indx > each attachment as it's own document. You would search on the main docs > as you do now, but then your app could issue a secondary request searching > for all "attachment" docs that match on one of the main docIds in a > special field, and use the results to note which attachment of each doc > (if any) caused the match. > > -Hoss > -- Thanks and Regards Rahul A. Warawdekar
