>Have you looked at UninvertedField?  Not sure if it is what you are after,
but it is essentially multivalued FC.
Yeah, not that much is public in UnInvertedField-


On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org>wrote:

>
> On Feb 18, 2010, at 1:54 PM, patrick o'leary wrote:
>
> > Cool, we want to examine certain fields of a docset which currently is a
> > multivalued field, obviously only the first value gets loaded into field
> > cache.
> >
> > But if a poly field that can be loaded into FC, then that will work, we
> can
> > extend FC to return an Field[] and make that cache aware.
>
> Have you looked at UninvertedField?  Not sure if it is what you are after,
> but it is essentially multivalued FC.
>
> >
> >
> > Sorting on multivalued is definitely a subjective matter that a function
> > query would rock in, having an FC or VS that supports is would make that
> > much easier, like say events where an event can have multiple dates,
> > sort_date_compared(performance_dates, NOW)
>
> I suppose if you have a multivalued function (see the Vector Distance
> stuff), you can do that already.  This is in fact how sort by distance works
> on trunk now.
>
> >
> > Or even distances from a poly, polyDistance(convexHull, point) or
> > polyDistance(center, point) etc..
>
> Yep.

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