Yep, that's pretty much it.. Erick
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:47 AM, manjula wijewickrema <manjul...@gmail.com>wrote: > Ok Erick, answer is there. If there is no any document exceeds the default > maxfieldlength, then no any document will be truncated although we increase > the no. of documents in the index. A'm I correct? Thanx for your > commitment. > > Manjula. > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > I'm not sure I understand your question. The number of documents > > has no bearing on the field length of each, which is what the > > max field length is all about. You can change the value here > > by calling Indexwriter.setMaxFieldLength to something shorter > > than the default. > > > > So no, if no document exceeds the default (Terms, not characters), > > no document will be truncated. > > > > The 10,000 limit also has no bearing on how much space indexing > > a document takes as long as there are fewer then 10,000 terms. That > > is, a document with 5,000 terms will take up just as much space > > with any MaxfieldLength > 5,000. > > > > HTH > > Erick > > > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:00 AM, manjula wijewickrema > > <manjul...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have seen that, onece the field length of a document goes over a > > certain > > > limit ( > > > > > > > > > http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_9_3/api/all/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.html#DEFAULT_MAX_FIELD_LENGTH > > > gives > > > it as 10,000 terms-default) Lucene truncates those documents. Is there > > any > > > possibility to truncate documents, if we increase the number of indexed > > > documents (assume, there are no any individual documents which exceed > the > > > default MaxFieldLength of Lucene)? > > > > > > Thanx > > > Manjula. > > > > > >