Re: Using Numeric Field

2009-10-09 Thread Jake Mannix
If you are really using all of that precision (down to the second) the short answer is YES. If you can remove much of that precision (only keep down to the day, for example), then you may be able to get perfectly good performance with strings alone when the range is only over a small set of terms,

Using Numeric Field

2009-10-09 Thread Siraj Haider
Hi, I have a Date field in my Lucene index that is currently stored as a String field with format: MMDDHHMISS. I perform RangeFilter on it when searching and also sort the results specifying it as a String field. My question is, will converting it to a Numeric field and start using Numeri