which type of fields are to be compressed

[sumantht <su...@gmail.com>]

hi
is it preferable to compress each and every field, if not why.?
how exactly it helps?
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Re: which type of fields are to be compressed

[Erick Erickson <er...@gmail.com>]

Compression is only relevant for the original text, not the indexed
part. So in terms of searching, it's irrelevant.

Where it is relevant is when you *fetch* the document (e.g.
doe = hits.doc(32)), the de-compression work is done (for
stored documents). Depending upon your app, this may or
may not matter.

Here's a writeup I did that will shed some light on this, even
though it talks about FieldSelector (which, if you really need
to compress data you probably care about too).

http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/FieldSelectorPerformance

Best
Erick

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:29 AM, sumantht <su...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> how exactly it helps?
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