[TYPO3-Solr] Synonyms and solr

[Ingo Renner]

Am 13.08.11 15:23, schrieb Jigal van Hemert:

Hi Jigal,

> In the schema.xml file I read that synonyms are implemented at index
> time. Is there any reason to not activate them at query time too? If a
> synonym is added the index must be rebuilt to use it.

doing synonym resolution at both times doesn't make a lot of sense. So 
we had to decide when to do it. After some experience we found that 
usually synonyms are defined once in a project and then often do not 
change anymore. So resolving them with each query would just be a waste. 
Also, having the Index Queue makes it easy to re-index a site.

> Is the speed penalty of activating synonyms at query time so big that
> it's not activated?

It's probably not, but as mentioned it'd be waste... In general it also 
depends on the size of your index.


Ingo

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