I think your best bet is to parse out the relevant units and index them independently. But this is probably only a few ints per record, so it shouldn't be much of a resource hog....
Best Erick On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Kurt Nordstrom <kurt.nordst...@unt.edu> wrote: > Hello all! > > We have a situation involving date searching that I could use some seasoned > opinions on. What we have is a collection of records, each containing a Solr > date field by which we want search on. > > The catch is that we want to be able to search for items that match a > specific day/month. Essentially, we're trying to implement a "this day in > history" feature for our dataset, so that users would be able to put in a > date and we'd return all matching records from the past 100 years or so. > > Is there a way to perform this kind of search with only the basic Solr date > field? Or would I have parse out the month and day and store them in > separate fields at indexing time? > > Thanks for the help! > > -Kurt
