thanks Erik
On 10/26/05, Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 26 Oct 2005, at 02:50, Jeff Rodenburg wrote: > > I'm considering building out an index that will flatten a data > > structure, > > such that some Document "A" will have Fields 1,2 and 3. > > Fields 1 and 2 are indexed/tokenized field. Field 3 is indexed, and > > will > > contain many discrete values (up to possibly 5000). > > > > Couple of questions: > > 1. Does the DEFAULT_MAX_FIELD_LENGTH on IndexWriter come into play > > for Field > > 3? Field 3 values are added to the document individually, there's > > just a > > bunch of them. > > No. The max field length only comes into play for tokenized > (analyzed) fields. > > > 2. Is MaxFieldLength a consideration for this? > > The default is 10,000, so you're safe :) > > From IndexWriter.java: > public final static int DEFAULT_MAX_FIELD_LENGTH = 10000; > > > Any guidance before I go through the trouble of building the index > > would be > > greatly appreciated. > > Never be afraid to just try out things. It's easy enough to whip up > a simple Java program of only a few lines that would exercise this > sort of thing. A simple for loop adding 5000 identically named non- > tokenized, indexed fields to a document would prove this to yourself. > > And now with Ferret - http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/ - the fun > and lightweight nature of Ruby will allow us to experiment with > Lucene without even compilation (or suffering Python syntax :). > > Erik > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
