Re: newbie question on determining fieldtype

[Thorsten Scherler <th...@apache.org>]

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 10:29 -0300, mike topper wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question that I couldn't find the exact answer to. 
> 
> I have some fields that I want to add to my schema but will never be 
> searched on.  They are only used as additional information about a 
> document when retrieved.  They are integers, so should i just have the 
> field be:
> 
> <field name="foo"             type="integer"             indexed="false" stored="true"/>
> 
> I'm pretty sure this is right, but I just wanted to check that I'm not missing any speedups from using a different field
> or adding some other parameters.
> 

Seems pretty right to me.

Did you read 
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SchemaXml

and saw the comment:
 <!-- numeric field types that store and index the text
         value verbatim (and hence don't support range queries, since
the
         lexicographic ordering isn't equal to the numeric ordering) -->

HTH
salu2
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thorsten

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