Hi Otis
What kind of implications does that produce on the search?
If I understand correctly that record would not be searched for if the field is not there, correct?
But then is there a point putting an empty value in it, if an application will never search for empty values?
thanks
-pedja
Otis Gospodnetic said the following on 12/8/2004 1:31 AM:
Empty fields won't add any value, you can skip them. Documents in an index don't have to be uniform. Each Document could have a different set of fields. Of course, that has some obvious implications for search, but is perfectly fine technically.
Otis
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Here's probably a silly question, very newbish, but I had to ask.
Since I have mysql documents that contain over 30 fields each and
most of them
are added to the index, is it a common practice to add fields to the
index with empty values, for that perticular record, or should the field be
totally omitted.
What I mean is if let's say a Title field is empty on a specific record (in mysql) should I still add that field into Lucene index with an empty value or just skip it and only add the fields that contain non-empty values?
thanks
-pedja
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