Hi, I think trie type fields add value only if you do range queries in them and it sounds like that is bit your use case.
Otis Solr & ElasticSearch Support http://sematext.com/ On Jan 23, 2013 2:53 PM, "Isaac Hebsh" <isaac.he...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > In my use case, Solr have to to return only the "id" field, as a response > for queries. However, it should return 1000 docs at once (rows=1000). > > My id field is defined as StrField, due to external systems constraints. > > I guess that TrieFields are more efficient than StrFields. *Theoretically*, > the field content can be retrieved without loading the stored field. > > Should I strive that the id will be managed as a number, or it has no > contribution to performance (search & retrieve times)? > > (Yes, I know that lucene has an internal id mechanism. I think it is not > relevant to my question...) > > > - Isaac. >