On Feb 18, 2010, at 1:54 PM, patrick o'leary wrote: > Cool, we want to examine certain fields of a docset which currently is a > multivalued field, obviously only the first value gets loaded into field > cache. > > But if a poly field that can be loaded into FC, then that will work, we can > extend FC to return an Field[] and make that cache aware.
Have you looked at UninvertedField? Not sure if it is what you are after, but it is essentially multivalued FC. > > > Sorting on multivalued is definitely a subjective matter that a function > query would rock in, having an FC or VS that supports is would make that > much easier, like say events where an event can have multiple dates, > sort_date_compared(performance_dates, NOW) I suppose if you have a multivalued function (see the Vector Distance stuff), you can do that already. This is in fact how sort by distance works on trunk now. > > Or even distances from a poly, polyDistance(convexHull, point) or > polyDistance(center, point) etc.. Yep.
