There is some bottleneck when you have a large number of fields and of
words. Each field has its own list of terms which means that the
dictionary, in the worst case, could be of size n*m (with n the number
of fields, and m the number of terms).
This can lead to some overhead when looking up a t
nal Message-
> From: Erick Erickson [mailto:erickerick...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 2:43 PM
> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Question on number of fields in a document
>
> There's no requirement that all documents have the same
> fields,
There's no requirement that all documents have the same
fields, Lucene is fine with different docs having different
fields.
There's no limit on the number of different fields allowed
that I know of, but I'm sure someone will chime in if there
is
HTH
Erick
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Vin
