: If I put duplicate values into a multiValued field, would that cause any issues? : : For example I have a multiValued field "Color". Some of my documents : have duplicate values for that field, such as: Green, Red, Blue, Green, : Green. : : Would the above (having 3 duplicate Green) be the same as having the : duplicated values of: Green, Red, Blue?
they won't be exdactly the same: the doc with dup vlaues will have a higher length, so it's lengthNorm will be lower; and it will have a higher term frequency for the terms that ar duplicated. in short, those documents won't score the same when searching the Color filed for any color. -Hoss
