<counter-rant> I feel that the strength of the Jack's rant is somewhat unprovoked by the original question. I also feel that the rant itself is worth being printed and framed :-)
But more than anything else, I feel that supposedly-known limitations of Solr/Lucene are not actually exposed all that much. Certainly, for myself, I did not see those iron-clad BEWARE OF THE DRAGONS signs anywhere on the Wiki or otherwise. I feel that they are more like Zen aspects that one learns by reading between the lines of various forum messages and by thinking through the presentations such as Adrian Trenaman's (on Gilt's experience). Maybe the books are supposed to do that, but even they, I feel, are failing to do it perfectly (including my own, I am sure). Just a thought. </counter-rant> Regards, Alex. Personal blog: http://blog.outerthoughts.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. (Anonymous - via GTD book) On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com> wrote: > Yes, the fact that multi-valued fields are not first-class Lucene/Solr > objects is a problem, but the limitations were all known in advance and no > guarantees were made, so you don't have much of an excuse now, other than to > lament the fact that somebody conned you into believing that multi-valued > fields were some kind of magic elixir, a magic "escape hatch" to a world > where the limits of Lucene and Solr don't apply. Sigh.
