what are the disdvantages of using dynamic fields?

[Jason Toy <ja...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

 I'd like to know what the specific disadvantages are for using dynamic
fields in my schema are? About half of my fields are dynamic, but I could
move all of them to be static fields. WIll my searches run faster? If there
are no disadvantages, can I just set all my fields to be dynamic?

Jason

Re: what are the disdvantages of using dynamic fields?

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

There are really no differences between dynamic and static
fields performance-wise that I know of.

Personally, though, I tend to prefer static over dynamic from
a maintenance/debugging perspective. At issue is tracking
down why results weren't as expected, then spending several
days discovering that I managed to mis-spell some field
in my docs, in my SolrJ program or in my queries. A variant
of the "fail early" notion.

Dynamic fields have great uses, but I think you're better off
using static when possible.

Best
Erick

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Jason Toy <ja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  I'd like to know what the specific disadvantages are for using dynamic
> fields in my schema are? About half of my fields are dynamic, but I could
> move all of them to be static fields. WIll my searches run faster? If there
> are no disadvantages, can I just set all my fields to be dynamic?
>
> Jason
>