It depends.

copyField may be good if you want to copy into a Soundex field, and then
boost the sounded field lower than the tokenized field.

What are you trying to do ?

On 8/22/11 11:14 AM, "Tom" <springmeth...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Is it a good rule of thumb, that when dealing with large indexes copyField
>should not be used.  It seems to duplicate the indexing of data.
>
>You don't need copyField to be able to search on multiple fields.
>Example,
>if I have two fields: title and post and I want to search on both, I could
>just query 
>title:<word> OR post:<word>
>
>So it seems to me if you have lot's of data and a large indexes, copyField
>should be avoided.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
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