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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:13:34 -0700
From: Jeff Rodenburg <jeff.rodenburg@gmail.com>
To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Re: MaxFieldLength or MaxFields?
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thanks Erik

On 10/26/05, Erik Hatcher <erik@ehatchersolutions.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 26 Oct 2005, at 02:50, Jeff Rodenburg wrote:
> > I'm considering building out an index that will flatten a data
> > structure,
> > such that some Document "A" will have Fields 1,2 and 3.
> > Fields 1 and 2 are indexed/tokenized field. Field 3 is indexed, and
> > will
> > contain many discrete values (up to possibly 5000).
>
>
> > Couple of questions:
> > 1. Does the DEFAULT_MAX_FIELD_LENGTH on IndexWriter come into play
> > for Field
> > 3? Field 3 values are added to the document individually, there's
> > just a
> > bunch of them.
>
> No. The max field length only comes into play for tokenized
> (analyzed) fields.
>
> > 2. Is MaxFieldLength a consideration for this?
>
> The default is 10,000, so you're safe :)
>
> From IndexWriter.java:
> public final static int DEFAULT_MAX_FIELD_LENGTH =3D 10000;
>
> > Any guidance before I go through the trouble of building the index
> > would be
> > greatly appreciated.
>
> Never be afraid to just try out things. It's easy enough to whip up
> a simple Java program of only a few lines that would exercise this
> sort of thing. A simple for loop adding 5000 identically named non-
> tokenized, indexed fields to a document would prove this to yourself.
>
> And now with Ferret - http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/ - the fun
> and lightweight nature of Ruby will allow us to experiment with
> Lucene without even compilation (or suffering Python syntax :).
>
> Erik
>
>
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