On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Michael McCandless <luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Earwin Burrfoot<ear...@gmail.com> wrote: > * Was the field even indexed w/ Trie, or indexed as "simple text"?
Why the special treatment for Trie? > It's useful to know this "automatically" at search time, so eg a > RangeQuery can do the right thing by default. FieldInfos seems > like the natural place to store this. It's basically Lucene's > per-segment write-once schema. Eg we use this to record "did any > token in this field have a Payload?", which is analogous. It doesn't seem analogous to me. Trie is just another implementation for numerics with it's own tradeoffs. > * We have a bug (or an important improvement) in how Trie encodes > terms that we need to fix. This one is not easy to handle, since > such a change could alter the term order, and merging segments > then becomes problematic. Not sure how to handle that. Yonik, > has Solr ever had to make a change to NumberUtils? Nope. If we needed to, we would make a new field type so that existing schemas/indexes would continue to work. -Yonik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
