>>It still reads the data for every field in the document No, not if your fields are positioned in the right order. It stops reading fields after it has got what is needed. If your doc has fields in the order:
smallFrequentlyReadField, largeRarelyReadField then the patch will not read "largeRarelyReadField" off the disk when you ask for "smallFrequentlyReadField". If the fields are ordered the other way around then there is (currently) no way of knowing the offset of the smallFrequentlyReadField so all fields would have to be read. Hope this helps. Mark ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]