You can still have the complete date as a separate field, and sort or filter by it, just don't use this field in your query.
Aviran http://www.aviransplace.com -----Original Message----- From: Tony Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 8:32 AM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: OutOfMemoryError on addIndexes() Is this a viable solution? Doesn't this make sorting and filtering much more complex and much more expensive as well? Tony Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Wednesday 17 August 2005 22:49, Paul Elschot wrote: >> > the index could potentially be huge. >> > >> > So if this is indeed the case, it is a potential scalability >> > bottleneck in lucene index size. >> >> Splitting the date field into century, year in century, month, day, >> hour, seconds, and milliseconds will reduce the total number of indexed terms to 2300 or so. > > 1300 is closer, I forgot that I had split off the centuries. > > Regards, > Paul Elschot > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]