> >> Filter queries with arbitrary text values may swamp the cache in > 1.3. > > > > Are you implying this won't happen in 1.4? > > I intended to say just this, but I was on the wrong track. > > > Can you point me to the feature that would mitigate this? > > What I was thinking of is the following: > > [#SOLR-475] multi-valued faceting via un-inverted field > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-475 > > But as you can see, this refers to faceting on multi-valued fields, not > to filter queries with arbitrary text. I was off on a tangent. Sorry. > > To get back to your initial mail, I tend to think that drop-down boxes > (the values of which you control) are a nice match for the filter > query, > whereas user-entered text is more likely to be a candidate for the main > query. > > Michael Ludwig
I agree, which brings me back tot the issue of combining dismax with standard queries. It looks like we may need to create a custom query parser to get optimal performance. Thanks again.
