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Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 17:26:24 +0300
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Subject: Re: Unexpected results in Solr 4 Pivot Faceting
From: Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Erik Hatcher <erik.hatcher@gmail.com> wrote=
:
>> Just to be clear, as I'm not logged onto the dev server at the moment
>> but it was implied in an earlier mail: Any field that is to be pivoted
>> on needs to be a string field? Is that documented, as I cannot find
>> that in the docs.
>
> No, it doesn't need to be a string field.... but whatever terms come out =
of the analysis process are what gets faceted upon.  If it was a "text" fie=
ld, each word in the field would be a facet value.  A "trie" field probably=
 doesn't work properly, as it indexes multiple terms per value and you'd ge=
t odd values.   Pivot faceting was initially implemented only with textual =
terms in mind, and string is generally the desired type.
>

Thanks for the insight. I'll see how much time for experimentation I
might afford.


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