If you read the payloads in sequence they're not arranged by their original
position whereas when you use a stored field you get the terms in the
correct order.
If you need to sort the values it doesn't matter of course.
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Nadav Har'El <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008, Chris Hostetter wrote about "Re: Sorting consumes
> hundreds of MBytes RAM":
> > : And question #2: what am I going to do against it? Index  sharding?
> >
> > The only suggestion i can offer is to take a look at LUCENE-769 ... it
> > takes a completley differnet appraoch of using a FieldSelector to access
> > the *stored* field and sort on it ... the memory usage of FieldCache is
> > eliminatedand the expense of longer search times ... in cases where you
> > expect queries to match on a very small subset of the total index, it
> > could be worth using.
>
> Instead of using a stored field, I would recommend using *payloads*.
> If you store the field's valye as payload on a custom term, you basically
> get a posting-list of the field value, which can be (theoretically, at
> least)
> efficiently skipped on one hand - and read in sequence on the other hand.
>
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