Re: Using more than one name for a query field - aliases

2010-09-17 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 9/17/2010 7:22 PM, Chris Hostetter wrote: a) not really. assuming you have no problem modifying the indexing code in the way you want, and are primarily worried about searching from various clients, then the most straight forward approach is probably to use RewriteRules (or something equivi

Re: Using more than one name for a query field - aliases

2010-09-17 Thread Chris Hostetter
: I would like to drop ft_text and make each index shard 3GB smaller, but make : it so that any queries which use ft_text get automatically redirected to : catchall. Ultimately we will be replacing catchall with dismax and : eliminating it. After the switch to dismax is complete and catchall is

Using more than one name for a query field - aliases

2010-09-09 Thread Shawn Heisey
I find myself in need of the ability to access one field by more than one name, for application transition purposes. Right now we have a field (ft_text, by far the largest part of the index) that is indexed but not stored. This field and three others are copied into an additional field calle