Re: documents with large numbers of fields

2007-05-21 Thread Steven Rowe
Mike Klaas wrote: > On 18-May-07, at 1:01 PM, charlie w wrote: >> Is there an upper limit on the number of fields comprising a document, >> and if so what is it? > > There is not. They are relatively costless if omitNorms=False Mike, I think you meant "relatively costless if omitNorms=True". St

Re: documents with large numbers of fields

2007-05-18 Thread Mike Klaas
On 18-May-07, at 1:01 PM, charlie w wrote: So now I have the idea to invert the field name and value thusly: foo=tag ^2 bar=tag ^1.2 foobar=tag^1.8 and search "foo:tag". Intuitively, I would expect Lucene to be optimized for searching the values of fields, and not really the names

documents with large numbers of fields

2007-05-18 Thread charlie w
Hi all, I am trying to create an index where I can apply specific boost values to documents, depending on the notion of something like a multiple tags for documents. Each tag would wind up having a different boost value in each document. My original approach was to add many fields with the same