Ah, I see, didn't know that, Thanks! Interesting that nutch stores it in a different structure (segments) and doesn't reuse Lucene strategy of storing within index. Any particular reason why? Is there any other use of "Segments" data structure except to return snippets?
Cheers, Ravish On 10/11/07, John H. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ravish. > > You are correct that Nutch does not store document content in the > Lucene index. The content *is* stored in the Nutch segment, which is > where snippets come from. > > Hope this helps. > > -J > > > On Oct 11, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Ravish Bhagdev wrote: > > > Hey All, > > > > Am I right in believing that in Lucene/Nutch, to be able to return > > content or snippet to a search query, the field to be returned has to > > be stored? > > > > AFAIK, by default, Nutch dose not store the document field, am I > > right? If so, how does it manage to return snippets? Wouldn't the > > index be quite huge if nutch were storing document field by default? > > > > I will appreciate any help/comments as I'm bit lost with this. > > > > Ravi > >
