very interesting. thank you all for the explanation!!! :)

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com>wrote:

> Setting both indexed and stored to false means to ignore input values for
> that field.
>
> The effective use case is that these fields may have values in the update
> input stream and they will be ignored. Without these field definitions,
> those same field values would cause exceptions - references to undefined
> fields. In other words, you are telling Solr that it is okay to have inputs
> for these fields - simply ignore them.
>
> But... you could still have update processors that look at the values of
> "ignored" fields and maybe assigns them to other, non-ignored fields.
>
> -- Jack Krupansky
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Ali, Saqib
> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 11:22 AM
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Use case indexed="false" stored="false" field
>
>
> Hello all,
>
>
> What would be the use case for such a field:
>
>        <field name="stored_on" type="tdate" indexed="false"
> stored="false"/>
>
>
> and
>
>        <field name="summary" type="string" indexed="false" stored="false"/>
>
>
> ?
>
>
> Thanks.
>

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