Hi Venkat, It depends on your use- case, but if want to query for time(with whatever granularity) then 'int' is good.
However if you just wan to query for date range then [date1 TO date2] should be fine. Ankit -----Original Message----- From: Jean-Sebastien Vachon [mailto:js.vac...@videotron.ca] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 9:09 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Reg: Indexing Date Fields I guess you can simply use a range query such as: fq=createdDate:[ date1 TO date2 ] On 2010-04-15, at 7:30 AM, Venkata Sai Krishna Vepakomma wrote: > Hi, > > 1) How do I query for Data between 2 date ranges. I have specified the > following field definition in Schema.xml. > > <field name="createdDate" type="long" indexed="true" stored="true" /> > > I have long values for Date fields. When I query with long values, I am > always getting all the results. > > 2) For indexing to be working efficiently and for querying between Date > ranges, Is it OK to use long values or Do I need to use 'Date' type with > specific formats. > > Please Let me know your thoughts. > > Thanks & Regards > Venkat
