I'd just try it and see, changing this should be pretty simple to do a before/after with your data and see if it's acceptable in your situation...
Best Erick On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Jamie Johnson <jej2...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was recently walking through schema.xml and noticed triedate vs date > and a note that triedate should be considered instead. I believe I > understand the basic principle behind triedate but is there an > analysis that exists which shows how much bigger an index would be if > triedate were used vs date? Also how much faster triedate vs date is? > Lastly, the default precisionStep is 6, has there been any analysis > about speed/size tradeoffs to show how much faster it is with lower > precisionsSteps (i.e. 2 or 4)? > > The only writeups I've seen are the ApacheCon PPT that Uwe Schindler > put together and this > http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2009/05/13/exploring-lucene-and-solrs-trierange-capabilities/. > If there are any other resources available I'd greatly appreciate > being pointed to them.