Yes. You should also index them…. Here’s the way I think of it.
For questions “For term X, which docs contain that value?” means index=true. This is a search. For questions “Does doc X have value Y in field Z”, means docValues=true. what’s the difference? Well, the first one is to get the result set. The second is for, given a result set, count/sort/whatever. fq clauses are searches, so index=true. sorting, faceting, grouping and function queries are “for each doc in the result set, what values does field Y contain?” Maybe that made things clear as mud, but it’s the way I think of it ;) Best, Erick fq clauses are searches. Indexed=true is for searching. sort > On May 19, 2020, at 4:00 PM, matthew sporleder <msporle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have quite a few numeric / meta-data type fields in my schema and > pretty much only use them in fq=, sort=, and friends. Should I always > use DocValue on these if i never plan to q=search: on them? Are there > any drawbacks? > > Thanks, > Matt
