Re: Efficient Sorting of Hits/Results Using an Encoded Date Field

2005-04-13 Thread tjones
Rus, Yes - the sorting custom comparator was only set up to use Comparable.compareTo() - it can't really compare native types using < or >. I think your best bet might be to encode your dates at index time into integers and put those in the index (assuming you really need Dates and not Timestam

Re: 34563: Efficient Sorting of DateField/DateTools Encoded Timestamp Long Values

2005-04-23 Thread tjones
Guys, I'm going to be out of town almost all next week, and won't get a chance to look at this until the week after. If anyone wants to work on it before then, feel free. btw, it's nice to be back after a hiatus :) I took a detour out of the tech world for the past few months, but am back now

Re: geographical searches

2005-05-02 Thread tjones
I don't really need any geographical scoring. I just need to be able to show all items within a region. Since a lot of the complexity of "Query" has to do with scoring, would it be better to just use the GeoFilter, and to search for *? Are there any performance issues with this? You might try

Re: FieldCache parser

2005-05-10 Thread tjones
+1 like the idea! Attached is a patch that makes it possible to supply a user-specified parser to FieldCache. For example, one might use this to process a date field as ints even if was not indexed as a decimal integer. Comments? Doug --

Re: [VOTE] Wolfgang as committer

2005-07-01 Thread tjones
+1 I'd like to propose Wolfgang Hoschek should be given commit rights to maintain his MemoryIndex contribution. Thoughts? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lucene does NOT use UTF-8.

2005-08-29 Thread tjones
Doug, How will the difference impact String memory allocations? Looking at the String code, I can't see where it would make an impact. Tim I would argue that the length written be the number of characters in the string, rather than the number of bytes written, since that can minimize stri