In order to make even a guess, we'd have to see your new field type. Particularly its field definitions and the analysis chain...
Best Erick On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:16 PM, j <jta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does fieldType have any effect on the thing that I specify should be > unique? > > uniqueKey has been working for me up until recently. I change the > field that is unique from type "string" to a fieldType that I have > defined. Now when I do an update I get a newly created document (so > that I have duplicates). > > Has anyone else had this problem before? >