Re: Sorting on arbitary 'custom' fields

2010-10-15 Thread Simon Wistow
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 07:17:43PM +0100, me said: It was just an idea though and I was hoping that there would be a simpler more orthodox way of doing it. In the end, for anyone who cares, we used dynamic fields. There are a lot of them but we haven't seen performance impacted that badly so

Re: Sorting on arbitary 'custom' fields

2010-10-11 Thread Simon Wistow
On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 06:31:19PM -0400, Erick Erickson said: I'm confused. What do you mean that a user can set any number of arbitrarily named fields on a document. It sounds like you are talking about a user adding arbitrarily may entries to a multi-valued field? Or is it some kind of

Re: Sorting on arbitary 'custom' fields

2010-10-09 Thread Erick Erickson
I'm confused. What do you mean that a user can set any number of arbitrarily named fields on a document. It sounds like you are talking about a user adding arbitrarily may entries to a multi-valued field? Or is it some kind of key:value pairs in a field in your schema? Under any circumstances,