Hi Erick,
Erick Erickson wrote:
Are you sure you want to recompute the length when sorting?
It's the classic time/space tradeoff, but I'd suggest that when
your index is big enough to make taking up some more space
a problem, it's far too big to spend the cycles calculating each
term length for sorting purposes considering you may be
sorting all the terms in your index worst-case.
Good point, thank you for the clarification. I "thought" that Lucene
internally stores the field length (e.g., in order to compute the
relevance) and getting this information at query time requires only a
simple lookup.
-Sascha
But you could consider payloads for storing the length, although
that would still be redundant...
Best
Erick
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Sascha Szott<sz...@zib.de> wrote:
Hi folks,
is it possible to sort by field length without having to (redundantly) save
the length information in a seperate index field? At first, I thought to
accomplish this using a function query, but I couldn't find an appropriate
one.
Thanks in advance,
Sascha
