Using a zero-padded number like 00000001 is fine for both range queries
and for integer-based sorting. Are you finding otherwise?
Erik
On Mar 18, 2005, at 12:46 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote:
There is prefix compression used on term values. So you could pad
numbers with lots of leading zeros and not incur much additional
size... 000000000001, for example.
Interesting...
One annoyance I have run across is the impedance mismatch between
range queries and sorting.
If your terms are indexed as standard numbers, then integer sorting
is fast, but range queries don't work (for negative values). If you
format the terms such that range queries work for any integer, then
you have to use the slower string (or custom) sorting.
Is there a way around this besides writing my own custom sorting hit
collector?
-Yonik
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