Understanding Purpose of Facet Fields in Typesense
TLDR John sought clarification about the use of facet fields in Typesense. Jason clarified that while previously dataset needed both facet and non-facet fields, this is now redundant.
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May 20, 2021 (33 months ago)
John
01:11 AMpublication_year_facet and authors_facet, additionally to the puclication_year and authors fields. Sure, I saw that the sample schema defines these two fields as facet fields... but does that enforce these two _facet fields to be always included? What is the purpose of these _facet fields, since in the sample dataset they seem to always be a copy of the non _facet ones?
Jason
01:16 AMWe've since addressed this in the past year or so, so now you can just use one field and set
facet: true on itJason
01:17 AM2
John
01:28 AM
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