On Aug 2, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Suk-Hyun Cho [via Lucene] wrote: > I appreciate your replies and ideas. > > SpanQuery would work, and I'll look into this further. However, what about > the original question? Is there no way to match documents on a per-element > basis against a multivalued field?
Correct; there is no way. Aside from Solr 4's "Join" feature, everything else suggested is a hack / work-around for a fundamental limitation. > If not, would it perhaps make sense to create a feature request? You could but I wouldn't bother because its unlikely to get any traction as it's a fundamental issue with Lucene and at the Solr level there is a solution on the horizon. > Also, regarding the join support you guys have mentioned: is it only on a > field within the same core, or is it across cores (as if cores are tables in > a database)? Joining on cores would eliminate most of the issues I'm having. > The examples I gave are simplified, but actually I have an entity A that has > entity B that has entity C, and I'm flattening out queriable fields of B and > C into the schema for A. This way, I can search for documents for the core A > that match some criteria for A, B, and/or C. The Join support works across cores. See the wiki and associated JIRA issue for it. ~ David Smiley ----- Author: https://www.packtpub.com/solr-1-4-enterprise-search-server/book -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Matching-queries-on-a-per-element-basis-against-a-multivalued-field-tp3217432p3219638.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
