Would http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FunctionQuery#fieldvalue help?
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Solr - Lucene - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: William Pierce <evalsi...@hotmail.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Fri, December 4, 2009 2:43:25 PM > Subject: Best way to handle bitfields in solr... > > Folks: > > In my db I currently have fields that represent bitmasks. Thus, for > example, a > value of the mask of 48 might represent an "undergraduate" (value = 16) and > "graduate" (value = 32). Currently, the corresponding field in solr is a > multi-valued string field called "EdLevel" which will have > Undergraduate and Graduate as its two values (for > this example). I do the conversion from the int into the list of values as > I > do the indexing. > > Ideally, I'd like solr to have bitwise operations so that I could store the > int > value, and then simply search by using bit operations. However, given that > this > is not possible, and that there have been recent threads speaking to > performance issues with multi-valued fields, is there something better I > could > do? > > TIA, > > - Bill
