Gene, I think you can think of multi-valued fields as just regular fields with multiple values concatenated together. There is nothing super magical about them.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: ristretto.rb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 6:32:03 AM > Subject: How are multivalued fields used? > > How does one use of this field type. > Forums, wiki, Lucene in Action, all coming up empty. > If there's a doc somewhere please point me there. > > I use pysolr to index. But, that's not a requirement. > > I'm not sure how one adds multivalues to a document. And once added, > if you want to remove one > how do you specify? Based on > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FieldOptionsByUseCase, it says to use > it to "add multiple values, maintaining order " Is the order for > indexing/searching or for storing/returning? > > > thanks > gene