Hi Alan, That number represents the number of tokens. Extra long field values get silently truncated.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Alan May <j.alan....@gmail.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 1:09:37 PM > Subject: Units for maxFieldLength > > Hi, > > I'd love to get more details about the maxFieldLength attribute in the > solrConfig.xml. > > Is this length in characters or bytes or some other measure? If chars, how > are double byte characters handled? If an add request is sent with a field > that exceeds this limit what is the behavior? (Is it truncated or does it > throw an exception?) > > Kind Regards, > Alan
