Re: Binary stored fields (was Re: suggestions for a student project)

2004-07-20 Thread Drew Farris
Hi Roy, The binary field feature has not been rolled into a release of Lucene, but there is a patch available as an attachment to the bugzilla entry: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29370 The patch can be accessed directly here: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/showattachment.c

Binary stored fields (was Re: suggestions for a student project)

2004-05-27 Thread Drew Farris
On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 17:34, Dmitry Serebrennikov wrote: > Drew Farris wrote: > > > >I send out a patch for this soon after the original discussion... > > > > Drew, I'm sorry I missed this. Definetely didn't mean to ignore you > work! I just assumed that th

Re: suggestions for a student project

2004-05-27 Thread Drew Farris
On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 16:17, Dmitry Serebrennikov wrote: > > How about adding binary fields capability to Lucene stored fields? This > could be fun and useful, especially if there is a need for this for the > project you are directly working on. > > Myself and Doug have discussed this last wee

Re: stored field compression

2004-05-15 Thread Drew Farris
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 19:35, Dmitry Serebrennikov wrote: > > > > Sounds like a good plan. String-values remain as fast as they are, > > and binary values > are no slower. We can easily layer compression, > > etc. on top of this. > > > > Are you volunteering? > > :) > I'm pretty well presse