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From: Grant Ingersoll <gsingers@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: postings without position information ?
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:46:47 -0500
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Search the archive for flexible indexing.  There have been a number of  
discussions on things like this, although I don't know that your  
specific issue was ever covered, but it seems like it fits in that  
model.  I think there was even a patch at one point in time.

-Grant
On Feb 7, 2008, at 1:43 PM, robert engels wrote:

> I think there are many uses of Lucene that would benefit from 'enum'  
> fields, aka categories.
>
> When classifying documents, they are often in one or more categories.
>
> Lucene could write these posting very efficiently using VINT and RLE  
> (run length encoding) if the positions information was not stored  
> (since it is not really useful in these typical cases).
>
> StartingDocNum|NumberOfDocuments...StartingDocNum|NumberOfDocuments  
> using a bit of the StartingDocNum to know if it was a series.
>
> When a lot of documents are in the same category, and they are added  
> as the same time, the document numbers would be nearly sequential,  
> allowing very efficient compression.
>
> Has anyone worked on this? Our previous custom IndexReaderWriter  
> supported it, and I was wondering if this has made it into the core.  
> I checked the docs/email and could not find anything.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Robert
>
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