In case anyone else was wondering: I got curious about how one would replace FieldCache, and discovered that you can create an instance of a class which implements FieldCache, and then simply assign it to org.apache.lucene.search.FieldCache.DEFAULT.
> 2) your use case sounds like it could best be served by leveraging the > FieldCache -- as long as each document contains only one value for the > DBID field, and as long as you index the DBID field, you can use the > FieldCache for that field (along with a HitCollector, or > TopDocs/TopFieldDocs) to access the DBID of every doc much faster then you > can get the stored value. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]