On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Shawn Heisey <[email protected]> wrote: > I was perusing email from this list and came across LUCENE-4069. If it is > as good as it says, it looks like a fit for a couple of the fields in my > index. > > I will admit that I don't entirely understand all of what's being said > regarding codecs, postings, and other such terms, but because I run a > distributed Solr index, I do understand that not all of Lucene's > functionality is available in Solr. My question: How much of all the new > bells and whistles in 4.0 will be available in Solr without custom coding? > In this specific instance, I would like to be able to use LUCENE-4069, but > my question is more general than that -- will it be possible to take the > official Solr 4.0 (or 4.1, or 4.2) download and specify codecs and other > details on a per-field basis? >
Maybe you are confused... you can already do this (for over a year). See the tests. Keep in mind that customizing the index format in this way is expert, e.g. we don't provide index backwards compatibility for it across releases, etc etc. -- lucidimagination.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
