Giovanni <stored="true"> means the data is stored in the index and can be returned with the search results (see the 'fl' parameter). This is independent of <indexed=..>
Which means that you can store but not index a field: <indexed="false" stored="true"> Best regards François On Jun 30, 2012, at 9:57 AM, Giovanni Gherdovich wrote: > Hi all, > > when declaring a field in the schema.xml file you can > set the attributes 'indexed' and 'stored' to "true" or "false". > > What is the difference between a <indexed="true" stored="false"> > and a <indexed="true" stored="true">? > > I guess understanding this would require me to have > a closer look to lucene's index data structures; > what's the pointer to some doc I can read? > > Cheers, > GGhh