Re: Lucene Index backboned by DB

2005-11-16 Thread Robert Kirchgessner
Hi, > 1) It might be OK to implement retrieving field values separately for a > document. However, I think from a simplicity point of view, it might be > better to have the application code do this drudgery. Adding this feature > could complicate the nice and simple design of Lucene without much

Re: Lucene Index backboned by DB

2005-11-15 Thread jian chen
Dear All, I have some thoughts on this issue as well. 1) It might be OK to implement retrieving field values separately for a document. However, I think from a simplicity point of view, it might be better to have the application code do this drudgery. Adding this feature could complicate the nice

Re: Lucene Index backboned by DB

2005-11-15 Thread Robert Kirchgessner
Hi, a discussion in http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-196 might be of interest to you. Did you think about storing the large pieces of documents in a database to reduce the size of Lucene index? I think there are good reasons to adding support for storing fields in separate files: 1