On 10/13/07, Lance Norskog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The sample schema in Solr 1.2 supplies two variants of integers, longs, > floats, doubles. One variant is sortable and one is not. > > What is the point of having both? Why would I choose the non-sorting > variants? Do they store fewer bytes per record?
They both "sort" (because sorting uses the un-inverted FieldCache entry) ... but they don't both do range queries correctly (which relies on term index oder). One might choose "integer" for reading a legacy lucene index, or because they only need it for sorting or for function queries and the FieldCache entry is smaller. -Yonik
