To store document (specially large ones) out of the index is better than
in index. Every merge of segments or optimize will copy those data.
Stored in index is possible, but it requires 1-4x more space, depends on
read/write speed of the fs, merge and optimize takes longer time.
Karel
On Sun,
Hello
It's a whil that I am using lucene and as most of people seemingly do, I
used to save only some important fields of a docuemnt in the index. But
recently I thought why not store the whole document bytes as an untokenized
field in the index in order to ease the retrieval process? For example
