> On Jul 22, 2020, at 08:52, raj.yadav <rajkum...@cse.ism.ac.in> wrote:
>
> Erik Hatcher-4 wrote
>> Wouldn’t a “string” field be as good, if not better, for this use case?
>
> What is the rationale behind this type change to 'string'. How will it speed
> up search/filtering? Will it not increase the index size. Since in general
> string type takes more space storage then int (not sure about whats case in
> lucene).
You tell me? ;) Easy enough to try in your environment, I imagine, in
parallel in same collection index.
As I understand it (in regards to Erick’s points), range queries aren’t being
used here.
Erik
>
> Regards,
> Raj
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