Re: globally unique field

2005-04-19 Thread PA
On Apr 20, 2005, at 04:09, Wesley MacDonald wrote: UID consists of a unique number based on a hashcode, system time and a counter, and a VMID contains a UID and adds a SHA hash based on IP address. Hmmm... UUID? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUID http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/UUI

RE: globally unique field

2005-04-19 Thread Wesley MacDonald
M To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: globally unique field First of all, a big thanks to all the Lucene hackers - I've only been using your product for a couple of weeks, and I've been very impressed by what I've seen. Here's my question: I have an index with a little over 3 mi

Re: globally unique field

2005-04-19 Thread Chuck Williams
Mike Baranczak wrote: First of all, a big thanks to all the Lucene hackers - I've only been using your product for a couple of weeks, and I've been very impressed by what I've seen. Here's my question: I have an index with a little over 3 million documents in it, with more on the way. Each docu

globally unique field

2005-04-19 Thread Mike Baranczak
First of all, a big thanks to all the Lucene hackers - I've only been using your product for a couple of weeks, and I've been very impressed by what I've seen. Here's my question: I have an index with a little over 3 million documents in it, with more on the way. Each document has an "URL" fiel