thanks shawn for quick insight about it. I will look more into this.. and will share my experience
Thanks, Karan Jindal On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Shawn Heisey <s...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 10/14/2013 3:05 AM, Karan jindal wrote: > >> Is there standard way of checking to know whether switching off fieldNorm >> helps or not? >> > > If you will *NEVER* care about how the length of a field affects your > relevancy score, you can omit norms for that field. If you don't care at > *all* about how matches in that field affect relevancy, then you could also > omit term frequencies and positions. These settings are designed to leave > standard information out of the index when they are not required, which > makes the index smaller. > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/**SchemaXml#Common_field_options<http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SchemaXml#Common_field_options> > > Be careful when you decide to leave information out of your > index.Requirements have a way of changing suddenly, and if you're not in a > position where you can reindex quickly, changing your schema for new > requirements is painful, because most schema changes require a reindex. > > Thanks, > Shawn > >
