On 6/9/06, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have an integer field that I've indexed after converting to a string : using NumberTools.longToString(). : Now I want to sort my results using this field. Everything works when : treating the field as a string, but is very slow and memory intensive. : : I want to use INT sorting instead, but these strings can not be parsed : back into integers by Java's built in parsing functions, which is 1) Take a look at FieldCache.IntParser and FieldCache.getInts(IndexReader,String,IntParser) .. you can use it in your own custom SortComparatorSource and use it when building your Sort Field. 2) unless you are using a MultiSearcher, sorting by a string shouldn't take any more tiem then sorting on an int -- String sorting only looks at
Thanks for the reply Hoss, as always. You hit the nail on the head though: I am using a MultiSearcher. 100+ indexes, each with millions of documents. The memory usage when storing the strings is very, very high. I'll do a little more research about the memory usage and expanding to more boxes and repost to the list. --Ben --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]