Thanks for your answer - I will store both texts (I have my own objects' ids that i use to identify the documents) and will index the text after the merge.
Thank you, Liat 2009/2/26 Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> > Reconstructing a field from an index is > 1> slow > 2> lossy (what about stemmed words? stopwords? ) > > UNLESS you have stored the data (Field.Store.YES/COMPRESS), > in which case you can just get the field from each index and put it > in the new one. Tokenization has little to do with this although you > could get a similar effect with untokenized fields but why would you > want to? > > I assume you have a way to uniquely identify the documents that you > want to combine, relying on the Lucene doc ID is fragile.... > > If possible, your best bet would be to reconstruct the new index > from the source you used to create the original indexes. > > Maybe a higher-level problem statement would help generate > more suggestions. > > Best > Erick > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:07 AM, liat oren <oren.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have two indexes, each has a tokenized field and I would like to > combine > > them both into one field in a new index. > > How can it be done? > > (Is it a good approach or is it better to hold them as untokenized text > and > > only when I create the new index, then to tokenize it?) > > > > Many thanks, > > Liat > > >
