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Subject: RE: How to read values of a field efficiently
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:52:01 +0200
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Thread-Topic: How to read values of a field efficiently
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From: "Ard Schrijvers" <a.schrijvers@hippo.nl>
To: <solr-user@lucene.apache.org>


> > you're missing the key piece that Ard alluded to ... the=20
> there is one
> > ordere list of all terms stored in the index ... a TermEnum lets you
> > iterate over this ordered list, and the=20
> IndexReader.terms(Term) method
> > lets you efficiently start at an arbitrary term.  if you are only
> > interested in terms for a specific field, once your=20
> TermEnum returns a
> > differnet field, you can stop -- you will never get any=20
> more terms for
> > the field you care about (hence Ard's terms.term().field()=20
> =3D=3D field in his
> > loop conditional)
> Ok, I wasn't aware of that - I thought that Ards while loop would be
> wrong,=20

I am deeply hurt by your distrust.

:-)=20

Ard