Yes, I forgot that strings support alphanumeric ranges.
However, they will potentially be very memory intensive since you dont get the
trie-optimization and since strings take up more space than ints. Only way is
to try it out.
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Jan Høydahl, search solution architect
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I have a field storing timestamp as text (MMDDHHMM). Can i get the
results as i get with date faceting? (July(30),August(54) etc)
As per my knowledge Solr currently doesn't support range faceting, even if
it does in the future , text will not be recognized as integer/long.
Tried for a
If you want to change the schema on the live index, make sure you do a
compatible change, as Solr does not do any type checking or schema change
validation.
I would ADD a field with another name for the tint field.
Unfortunately you have to re-index to have an index built on this field.
May I
adding
facet.query=timestamp:[20100601+TO+201006312359]facet.query=timestamp:[20100701+TO+201007312359]...
in query should give the desired response without changing the schema or
re-indexing.
