I can't speak to performance, but there's no problem having different fields for different documents. Stated differently, you don't need to have all fields in all documents. It took me a while to get my head out of database tables and accept this <G>....
I doubt there's a problem with speed, but as always some measurements over your particular data count most..... Erick On 8/1/06, Mek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have 1 generic index, but am Indexing a lot of different things, like actors, politicians, scientists, sportsmen. And as you can see that though there are some common fields, like name & DOB, there are also fields for each of these types of people that are different. e.g. Actors will have "Movies, TV shows, ", politicians will have "Political party...", scientists will have "publications, inventions ..." Also, I do not want to create multiple indexes, as the number of such types & hence the number of indices can get out of hand, eg I could decide to add "footballers", "tennis players". I am sure I am not the 1st who's facing this problem. From what I gather, I can go ahead & create an Index & for each Document & only add the relevant fields. Is this correct? I should still be able to search with queries like "mel Movies:braveheart". Right ? Would this impact the search performance ? Any other words of caution for me ? Thanks, mek
