On the wiki, it says: > One of the powerful features of Lucene is that you don't have to > pre-define every field when you first create your index. Even though > Solr provides strong datatyping for fields, it still preserves that > flexibility using "Dynamic Fields".
Is the use of a predefined schema primarily a "type safety" feature? We're considering using Solr for a data set that is very free-form; will we get much slower results if the majority of our data is in a dynamic field such as: <dynamicField name="*" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true"/> I'm a little unclear on the trade-offs involved and would appreciate a hint. Phil Hagelberg http://technomancy.us
