What about an option to override this on a per field-type and/or per field basis. Then the global setting could still be default:
<fieldType name="text" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100" maxLength="100000"> OR <field name="teaser" type="text" indexed="true" stored="true" maxLength="100000"/> -- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com Training in Europe - www.solrtraining.com On 24. aug. 2010, at 20.56, Eric Pugh wrote: > I did always think that the global maxFieldLength was odd. In one project I > have, 10,000 is fine except for 1 field that I would like to bump up to > 100,000, and there isn't (as far as I know) a way to do that. Is there any > real negative effect to swapping to maxFieldLength of 100,000 (with the > caveat that the auto truncation won't be working!)? > > The filter approach that you pointed out does make sense, the only worry I > have is that it might make building analyzers more complex. One of the > things I treasure about Solr is how many decisions it makes for you out of > the box that are right so very often, and therefore how simple it is. If > every user needs to think about maxFieldLength from day one, then that might > make life more complex. > > Eric > > > > > > On Aug 24, 2010, at 2:44 PM, Robert Muir wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Eric Pugh <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> I created a patch file at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2086. >> I went with the simplest approach since I didn't want to confuse things by >> having extra filters being added to what the user created. However, either >> approach would work! >> >> >> >> One idea here was that this maxFieldLength might be going away: see >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2295 for more information >> (though i notice its still not listed as deprecated?). >> >> But for now its worth mentioning: The filter is more flexible, for example >> it supports per-field configuration (and of course if you use the filter >> instead, which you can do now, it will automatically work in analysis.jsp). >> >> >> -- >> Robert Muir >> [email protected] > > ----------------------------------------------------- > Eric Pugh | Principal | OpenSource Connections, LLC | 434.466.1467 | > http://www.opensourceconnections.com > Co-Author: Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server available from > http://www.packtpub.com/solr-1-4-enterprise-search-server > Free/Busy: http://tinyurl.com/eric-cal > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
