diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 6c4c431e40f..db99c8955c8 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ New Features
 
 * SOLR-1653: Add PatternReplaceCharFilter (koji)
 
+* SOLR-1131: FieldTypes can now output multiple Fields per Type and still be searched.  This can be handy for hiding the details of a particular
+  implementation such as in the spatial case. (Chris Mattmann, shalin, noble, gsingers, yonik)
+
 Optimizations
 ----------------------
 
diff --git a/example/exampledocs/hd.xml b/example/exampledocs/hd.xml
index 90a87f0ad74..470b2e71697 100644
--- a/example/exampledocs/hd.xml
+++ b/example/exampledocs/hd.xml
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
   <field name="popularity">6</field>
   <field name="inStock">true</field>
   <field name="manufacturedate_dt">2006-02-13T15:26:37Z</field>
+  <field name="store">45.17614,-93.87341</field>
 </doc>
 
 <doc>
@@ -42,6 +43,8 @@
   <field name="price">350</field>
   <field name="popularity">6</field>
   <field name="inStock">true</field>
+  <!-- Buffalo store -->
+  <field name="store">45.17614,-93.87341</field>
   <field name="manufacturedate_dt">2006-02-13T15:26:37Z</field>
 </doc>
 </add>
diff --git a/example/exampledocs/ipod_other.xml b/example/exampledocs/ipod_other.xml
index a1924d33b0e..8a1dd5d300a 100644
--- a/example/exampledocs/ipod_other.xml
+++ b/example/exampledocs/ipod_other.xml
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
   <field name="price">19.95</field>
   <field name="popularity">1</field>
   <field name="inStock">false</field>
+  <!-- Buffalo store -->
+  <field name="store">45.17614,-93.87341</field>
   <field name="manufacturedate_dt">2005-08-01T16:30:25Z</field>
 </doc>
 
@@ -42,6 +44,8 @@
   <field name="price">11.50</field>
   <field name="popularity">1</field>
   <field name="inStock">false</field>
+  <!-- San Francisco store -->
+  <field name="store">37.7752,-122.4232</field>
   <field name="manufacturedate_dt">2006-02-14T23:55:59Z</field>
 </doc>
 
diff --git a/example/exampledocs/ipod_video.xml b/example/exampledocs/ipod_video.xml
index 9b155f5f69c..8f5dc60f5b2 100644
--- a/example/exampledocs/ipod_video.xml
+++ b/example/exampledocs/ipod_video.xml
@@ -32,5 +32,7 @@
   <field name="price">399.00</field>
   <field name="popularity">10</field>
   <field name="inStock">true</field>
+  <!-- San Francisco store -->
+  <field name="store">37.7752,-122.4232</field>
   <field name="manufacturedate_dt">2005-10-12T08:00:00Z</field>
 </doc></add>
diff --git a/example/exampledocs/mem.xml b/example/exampledocs/mem.xml
index 13eb9e351d3..179a56cda70 100644
--- a/example/exampledocs/mem.xml
+++ b/example/exampledocs/mem.xml
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
   <field name="price">185</field>
   <field name="popularity">5</field>
   <field name="inStock">true</field>
+  <!-- San Francisco store -->
+  <field name="store">37.7752,-122.4232</field>
   <field name="manufacturedate_dt">2006-02-13T15:26:37Z</field>
 </doc>
 
@@ -38,6 +40,8 @@
   <field name="price">74.99</field>
   <field name="popularity">7</field>
   <field name="inStock">true</field>
+  <!-- San Francisco store -->
+  <field name="store">37.7752,-122.4232</field>
   <field name="manufacturedate_dt">2006-02-13T15:26:37Z</field>
 </doc>
 
@@ -51,6 +55,8 @@
   <!-- note: price & popularity is missing on this one -->
   <field name="popularity">0</field>
   <field name="inStock">true</field>
+  <!-- Buffalo store -->
+  <field name="store">45.17614,-93.87341</field>
   <field name="manufacturedate_dt">2006-02-13T15:26:37Z</field>
 </doc>
 
diff --git a/example/exampledocs/monitor.xml b/example/exampledocs/monitor.xml
index ddb523f720d..99bed66f62d 100644
--- a/example/exampledocs/monitor.xml
+++ b/example/exampledocs/monitor.xml
@@ -27,5 +27,7 @@
   <field name="price">2199</field>
   <field name="popularity">6</field>
   <field name="inStock">true</field>
+  <!-- Buffalo store -->
+  <field name="store">45.17614,-93.87341</field>
 </doc></add>
 
diff --git a/example/exampledocs/monitor2.xml b/example/exampledocs/monitor2.xml
index c69c4a1688f..64e33a45f30 100644
--- a/example/exampledocs/monitor2.xml
+++ b/example/exampledocs/monitor2.xml
@@ -26,5 +26,7 @@
   <field name="price">279.95</field>
   <field name="popularity">6</field>
   <field name="inStock">true</field>
+  <!-- Buffalo store -->
+  <field name="store">45.17614,-93.87341</field>
 </doc></add>
 
diff --git a/example/exampledocs/mp500.xml b/example/exampledocs/mp500.xml
index 4e6812670c0..2a914077a37 100644
--- a/example/exampledocs/mp500.xml
+++ b/example/exampledocs/mp500.xml
@@ -35,5 +35,7 @@
   <field name="price">179.99</field>
   <field name="popularity">6</field>
   <field name="inStock">true</field>
+  <!-- Buffalo store -->
+  <field name="store">45.17614,-93.87341</field>
 </doc></add>
 
diff --git a/example/exampledocs/sd500.xml b/example/exampledocs/sd500.xml
index f04f7b7061d..fde6f492230 100644
--- a/example/exampledocs/sd500.xml
+++ b/example/exampledocs/sd500.xml
@@ -31,4 +31,6 @@
   <field name="popularity">7</field>
   <field name="inStock">true</field>
   <field name="manufacturedate_dt">2006-02-13T15:26:37Z</field>
+  <!-- Buffalo store -->
+  <field name="store">45.17614,-93.87341</field>
 </doc></add>
diff --git a/example/exampledocs/vidcard.xml b/example/exampledocs/vidcard.xml
index 4aa86983064..9cd3fd1c79c 100644
--- a/example/exampledocs/vidcard.xml
+++ b/example/exampledocs/vidcard.xml
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
   <field name="weight">16</field>
   <field name="price">479.95</field>
   <field name="popularity">7</field>
+  <field name="store">40.7143,-74.006</field>
   <field name="inStock">false</field>
   <field name="manufacturedate_dt">2006-02-13T15:26:37Z/DAY</field>
 </doc>
@@ -50,5 +51,7 @@
   <field name="popularity">7</field>
   <field name="inStock">false</field>
   <field name="manufacturedate_dt">2006-02-13T15:26:37Z/DAY</field>
+  <!-- NYC store -->
+  <field name="store">40.7143,-74.006</field>
 </doc>
 </add>
diff --git a/example/solr/conf/schema.xml b/example/solr/conf/schema.xml
index 82f4ba9a804..59808bbc6d9 100755
--- a/example/solr/conf/schema.xml
+++ b/example/solr/conf/schema.xml
@@ -394,7 +394,12 @@
 
     <!-- since fields of this type are by default not stored or indexed,
          any data added to them will be ignored outright.  --> 
-    <fieldtype name="ignored" stored="false" indexed="false" multiValued="true" class="solr.StrField" /> 
+    <fieldtype name="ignored" stored="false" indexed="false" multiValued="true" class="solr.StrField" />
+
+    <!--
+     A PointType is a Poly Field.  It can either declare a subFieldType or a subFieldSuffix
+     -->
+    <fieldType name="location" class="solr.PointType" dimension="2" subFieldType="double"/>
 
  </types>
 
@@ -440,6 +445,8 @@
    <field name="popularity" type="int" indexed="true" stored="true" />
    <field name="inStock" type="boolean" indexed="true" stored="true" />
 
+   <field name="store" type="location" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
+
 
    <!-- Common metadata fields, named specifically to match up with
      SolrCell metadata when parsing rich documents such as Word, PDF.
diff --git a/src/common/org/apache/solr/common/SolrException.java b/src/common/org/apache/solr/common/SolrException.java
index 582db467fcc..4e7acc328b4 100644
--- a/src/common/org/apache/solr/common/SolrException.java
+++ b/src/common/org/apache/solr/common/SolrException.java
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ public class SolrException extends RuntimeException {
     SERVER_ERROR( 500 ),
     SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE( 503 ),
     UNKNOWN(0);
-    final int code;
+    public final int code;
     
     private ErrorCode( int c )
     {
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/CoordinateFieldType.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/CoordinateFieldType.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b6eedec8033
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/CoordinateFieldType.java
@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.solr.schema;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.TermQuery;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
+import org.apache.solr.search.QParser;
+import org.apache.solr.search.function.ValueSource;
+import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
+import org.apache.solr.common.params.SolrParams;
+import org.apache.solr.common.params.MapSolrParams;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+
+/**
+ * A CoordinateFieldType is the base class for {@link org.apache.solr.schema.FieldType}s that have semantics
+ * related to items in a coordinate system.
+ * <br/>
+ * Implementations depend on a delegating work to a sub {@link org.apache.solr.schema.FieldType}, specified by
+ * either the {@link #SUB_FIELD_SUFFIX} or the {@link #SUB_FIELD_TYPE} (the latter is used if both are defined.
+ * <br/>
+ * Example:
+ * <pre>&lt;fieldType name="xy" class="solr.PointType" dimension="2" subFieldType="double"/&gt;
+ * </pre>
+ * In theory, classes deriving from this should be able to do things like represent a point, a polygon, a line, etc.
+ * <br/>
+ * NOTE: There can only be one sub Field Type.
+ *
+ */
+public abstract class CoordinateFieldType extends FieldType implements SchemaAware  {
+  /**
+   * The dimension of the coordinate system
+   */
+  protected int dimension;
+  protected FieldType subType;
+  public static final String SUB_FIELD_SUFFIX = "subFieldSuffix";
+  public static final String SUB_FIELD_TYPE = "subFieldType";
+  private String suffix;//need to keep this around between init and inform, since dynamic fields aren't created until before inform
+  protected int dynFieldProps;
+
+  public int getDimension() {
+    return dimension;
+  }
+
+  public FieldType getSubType() {
+    return subType;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  protected void init(IndexSchema schema, Map<String, String> args) {
+
+    //it's not a first class citizen for the IndexSchema
+    SolrParams p = new MapSolrParams(args);
+    String subFT = p.get(SUB_FIELD_TYPE);
+    String subSuffix = p.get(SUB_FIELD_SUFFIX);
+    if (subFT != null) {
+      args.remove(SUB_FIELD_TYPE);
+      subType = schema.getFieldTypeByName(subFT.trim());
+    } else if (subSuffix != null) {
+      args.remove(SUB_FIELD_SUFFIX);
+      suffix = subSuffix;
+    }else {
+      throw new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.SERVER_ERROR, "The field type: " + typeName
+              + " must specify the " +
+      SUB_FIELD_TYPE + " attribute or the " + SUB_FIELD_SUFFIX + " attribute.");
+    }
+
+    super.init(schema, args);
+  }
+
+  public void inform(IndexSchema schema) {
+    //Can't do this until here b/c the Dynamic Fields are not initialized until here.
+    if (suffix != null){
+      SchemaField sf = schema.getField(suffix);
+      subType = sf.getType();//this means it is already registered
+      dynFieldProps = sf.getProperties(); 
+    }
+    else if (subType != null) {
+      SchemaField proto = registerPolyFieldDynamicPrototype(schema, subType);
+      dynFieldProps = proto.getProperties();
+    } else {
+      throw new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.SERVER_ERROR, "The field type: " + typeName
+              + " must specify the " +
+      SUB_FIELD_TYPE + " attribute or the " + SUB_FIELD_SUFFIX + " attribute.");
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Helper method for creating a dynamic field SchemaField prototype.  Returns a {@link org.apache.solr.schema.SchemaField} with
+   * the {@link org.apache.solr.schema.FieldType} given and a name of "*" + {@link org.apache.solr.schema.FieldType#POLY_FIELD_SEPARATOR} + {@link org.apache.solr.schema.FieldType#typeName}
+   * and props of indexed=true, stored=false.
+   * @param schema the IndexSchema
+   * @param type The {@link org.apache.solr.schema.FieldType} of the prototype.
+   * @return The {@link org.apache.solr.schema.SchemaField}
+   */
+
+  static SchemaField registerPolyFieldDynamicPrototype(IndexSchema schema, FieldType type){
+    String name = "*" + FieldType.POLY_FIELD_SEPARATOR + type.typeName;
+    Map<String, String> props = new HashMap<String, String>();
+    //Just set these, delegate everything else to the field type
+    props.put("indexed", "true");
+    props.put("stored", "false");
+    int p = SchemaField.calcProps(name, type, props);
+    SchemaField proto = SchemaField.create(name,
+            type, p, null);
+    schema.registerDynamicField(proto);
+    return proto;
+  }
+
+
+  /**
+   * Throws UnsupportedOperationException()
+   */
+  public Query getFieldQuery(QParser parser, SchemaField field, String externalVal) {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/FieldType.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/FieldType.java
index a5387fa522f..3fb823e6bbe 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/FieldType.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/FieldType.java
@@ -20,14 +20,14 @@ package org.apache.solr.schema;
 import org.apache.lucene.document.Field;
 import org.apache.lucene.document.Fieldable;
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer;
-import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream;
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.Tokenizer;
-import org.apache.lucene.analysis.Token;
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.TermAttribute;
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.OffsetAttribute;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.SortField;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.TermRangeQuery;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.TermQuery;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
 import org.apache.solr.search.function.ValueSource;
 import org.apache.solr.search.function.OrdFieldSource;
 import org.apache.solr.search.Sorting;
@@ -36,11 +36,17 @@ import org.apache.solr.request.XMLWriter;
 import org.apache.solr.request.TextResponseWriter;
 import org.apache.solr.analysis.SolrAnalyzer;
 import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
+import org.apache.solr.common.params.SolrParams;
+import org.apache.solr.common.params.MapSolrParams;
 
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.io.Reader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 
@@ -52,6 +58,14 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 public abstract class FieldType extends FieldProperties {
   public static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(FieldType.class);
 
+  /**
+   * The default poly field separator.
+   *
+   * @see #createFields(SchemaField, String, float)
+   * @see #isPolyField()
+   */
+  public static final String POLY_FIELD_SEPARATOR = "___";
+
   /** The name of the type (not the name of the field) */
   protected String typeName;
   /** additional arguments specified in the field type declaration */
@@ -59,9 +73,10 @@ public abstract class FieldType extends FieldProperties {
   /** properties explicitly set to true */
   protected int trueProperties;
   /** properties explicitly set to false */
-  protected int falseProperties;  
+  protected int falseProperties;
   int properties;
 
+
   /** Returns true if fields of this type should be tokenized */
   public boolean isTokenized() {
     return (properties & TOKENIZED) != 0;
@@ -72,6 +87,18 @@ public abstract class FieldType extends FieldProperties {
     return (properties & MULTIVALUED) != 0;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * A "polyField" is a FieldType that can produce more than one Field per FieldType, via the {@link #createFields(org.apache.solr.schema.SchemaField, String, float)} method.  This is useful
+   * when hiding the implementation details of a field from the Solr end user.  For instance, a spatial point may be represented by three different field types, all of which may produce 1 or more
+   * fields.
+   * @return true if the {@link #createFields(org.apache.solr.schema.SchemaField, String, float)} method may return more than one field
+   */
+  public boolean isPolyField(){
+    return false;
+  }
+
+
+
   /** Returns true if a single field value of this type has multiple logical values
    *  for the purposes of faceting, sorting, etc.  Text fields normally return
    *  true since each token/word is a logical value.
@@ -85,7 +112,8 @@ public abstract class FieldType extends FieldProperties {
    * Common boolean properties have already been handled.
    *
    */
-  protected void init(IndexSchema schema, Map<String,String> args) {
+  protected void init(IndexSchema schema, Map<String, String> args) {
+
   }
 
   protected String getArg(String n, Map<String,String> args) {
@@ -191,8 +219,15 @@ public abstract class FieldType extends FieldProperties {
    * :TODO: clean up and clarify this explanation.
    *
    * @see #toInternal
+   *
+   *
    */
   public Field createField(SchemaField field, String externalVal, float boost) {
+    if (!field.indexed() && !field.stored()) {
+      if (log.isTraceEnabled())
+        log.trace("Ignoring unindexed/unstored field: " + field);
+      return null;
+    }
     String val;
     try {
       val = toInternal(externalVal);
@@ -200,23 +235,123 @@ public abstract class FieldType extends FieldProperties {
       throw new SolrException( SolrException.ErrorCode.SERVER_ERROR, "Error while creating field '" + field + "' from value '" + externalVal + "'", e, false);
     }
     if (val==null) return null;
-    if (!field.indexed() && !field.stored()) {
-      if (log.isTraceEnabled())
-        log.trace("Ignoring unindexed/unstored field: " + field);
-      return null;
+
+    return createField(field.getName(), val, getFieldStore(field, val),
+            getFieldIndex(field, val), getFieldTermVec(field, val), field.omitNorms(),
+            field.omitTf(), boost);
+  }
+
+
+
+  /**
+   * Create multiple fields from a single field and multiple values.  Fields are named as SchemaField.getName() + {@link #POLY_FIELD_SEPARATOR} + i, where
+   * i starts at 0.
+   * <p/>
+   * If the field is stored, then an extra field gets created that contains the storageVal.  It is this field that also
+   *
+   * @param field The {@link org.apache.solr.schema.SchemaField}
+   * @param props The properties to use
+   * @param delegatedType An optional type to use.  If null, then field.getType() is used.  Useful for poly fields.
+   * @param storageVal If the field stores, then this value will be used for the stored field
+   * @param boost The boost to apply to all fields
+   * @param externalVals The values to use
+   * @return The fields
+   */
+  protected Fieldable[] createFields(SchemaField field, int props,
+                                 FieldType delegatedType, String storageVal,
+                                 float boost, String ... externalVals) {
+    int n = field.indexed() ? externalVals.length : 0;
+    n += field.stored() ? 1 : 0;
+    if (delegatedType == null) { //if the type isn't being overriden, then just use the base one
+      delegatedType = field.getType();
     }
+    Field[] results = new Field[n];
+    //Field.Store.NO,Field.Index.NOT_ANALYZED_NO_NORMS, Field.TermVector.NO, true, true
 
+    if (externalVals.length > 0) {
+      if (field.indexed()) {
+        String name = field.getName() + "_";
+        String suffix = POLY_FIELD_SEPARATOR + delegatedType.typeName;
 
-    Field f = new Field(field.getName(),
+        int len = name.length();
+        StringBuilder bldr = new StringBuilder(len + 3 + suffix.length());//should be enough buffer to handle most values of j.
+        bldr.append(name);
+        for (int j = 0; j < externalVals.length; j++) {
+          //SchemaField is final, as is name, so we need to recreate each time
+          //put the counter before the separator, b/c dynamic fields can't be asterisks on both the front and the end of the String
+          bldr.append(j).append(suffix);
+          SchemaField sf = SchemaField.create(bldr.toString(),
+                  delegatedType, props, null);
+                  //schema.getDynamicField(name  + "_" + j + POLY_FIELD_SEPARATOR + delegatedType.typeName);
+                  /**/
+          //new SchemaField(name, ft, p, defaultValue )
+          //QUESTION: should we allow for vectors, etc?  Not sure that it makes sense
+          results[j] = delegatedType.createField(sf, externalVals[j], boost);
+          bldr.setLength(len);//cut the builder back to just the length of the prefix, but keep the capacity
+        }
+      }
+      Field.TermVector fieldTermVec = getFieldTermVec(field, storageVal);
+      if (field.stored() || fieldTermVec.equals(Field.TermVector.YES)
+              || fieldTermVec.equals(Field.TermVector.WITH_OFFSETS)
+              || fieldTermVec.equals(Field.TermVector.WITH_POSITIONS)
+              || fieldTermVec.equals(Field.TermVector.WITH_POSITIONS_OFFSETS)
+      ) {
+
+          //QUESTION: should we allow for vectors, etc?  Not sure that it makes sense
+        results[results.length - 1] = createField(field.getName(), storageVal, getFieldStore(field, storageVal),
+                Field.Index.NO,
+                fieldTermVec, field.omitNorms(), field.omitTf(), boost);
+         
+      }
+
+    }
+    return results;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Create the field from native Lucene parts.  Mostly intended for use by FieldTypes outputing multiple
+   * Fields per SchemaField
+   * @param name The name of the field
+   * @param val The _internal_ value to index
+   * @param storage {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Field.Store}
+   * @param index {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Field.Index}
+   * @param vec {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Field.TermVector}
+   * @param omitNorms true if norms should be omitted
+   * @param omitTFPos true if term freq and position should be omitted.
+   * @param boost The boost value
+   * @return the {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Field}.
+   */
+  protected Field createField(String name, String val, Field.Store storage, Field.Index index,
+                                    Field.TermVector vec, boolean omitNorms, boolean omitTFPos, float boost){
+    Field f = new Field(name,
                         val,
-                        getFieldStore(field, val),
-                        getFieldIndex(field, val),
-                        getFieldTermVec(field, val));
-    f.setOmitNorms(field.omitNorms());
-    f.setOmitTermFreqAndPositions(field.omitTf());
+                        storage,
+                        index,
+                        vec);
+    f.setOmitNorms(omitNorms);
+    f.setOmitTermFreqAndPositions(omitTFPos);
     f.setBoost(boost);
     return f;
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Given a {@link org.apache.solr.schema.SchemaField}, create one or more {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Field} instances
+   * @param field the {@link org.apache.solr.schema.SchemaField}
+   * @param externalVal The value to add to the field
+   * @param boost The boost to apply
+   * @return The {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Field} instances
+   *
+   * @see #createField(SchemaField, String, float)
+   * @see #isPolyField()
+   */
+  public Fieldable[] createFields(SchemaField field, String externalVal, float boost) {
+    Field f = createField( field, externalVal, boost);
+    if( f != null ) {
+      return new Field[] { f };
+    }
+    return null;
+  }
+
   /* Helpers for field construction */
   protected Field.TermVector getFieldTermVec(SchemaField field,
                                              String internalVal) {
@@ -226,7 +361,7 @@ public abstract class FieldType extends FieldProperties {
     else if (field.storeTermPositions())
       ftv = Field.TermVector.WITH_POSITIONS;
     else if (field.storeTermOffsets())
-      ftv = Field.TermVector.WITH_OFFSETS;            
+      ftv = Field.TermVector.WITH_OFFSETS;
     else if (field.storeTermVector())
       ftv = Field.TermVector.YES;
     return ftv;
@@ -237,7 +372,7 @@ public abstract class FieldType extends FieldProperties {
   }
   protected Field.Index getFieldIndex(SchemaField field,
                                       String internalVal) {
-    return field.indexed() ? (isTokenized() ? Field.Index.TOKENIZED : 
+    return field.indexed() ? (isTokenized() ? Field.Index.TOKENIZED :
                               Field.Index.UN_TOKENIZED) : Field.Index.NO;
   }
 
@@ -265,7 +400,7 @@ public abstract class FieldType extends FieldProperties {
   }
 
   /**
-   * Convert the stored-field format to an external object.  
+   * Convert the stored-field format to an external object.
    * @see #toInternal
    * @since solr 1.3
    */
@@ -290,7 +425,7 @@ public abstract class FieldType extends FieldProperties {
     // that the indexed form is the same as the stored field form.
     return f.stringValue();
   }
-  
+
   /** Given the readable value, return the term value that will match it. */
   public String readableToIndexed(String val) {
     return toInternal(val);
@@ -321,7 +456,7 @@ public abstract class FieldType extends FieldProperties {
           termAtt.setTermBuffer(s);
           offsetAtt.setOffset(correctOffset(0),correctOffset(n));
           return true;
-        }       
+        }
       };
 
       return new TokenStreamInfo(ts, ts);
@@ -335,7 +470,7 @@ public abstract class FieldType extends FieldProperties {
    * @see #getAnalyzer
    */
   protected Analyzer analyzer=new DefaultAnalyzer(256);
-  
+
   /**
    * Analyzer set by schema for text types to use when searching fields
    * of this type, subclasses can set analyzer themselves or override
@@ -394,7 +529,7 @@ public abstract class FieldType extends FieldProperties {
    */
   public abstract void write(TextResponseWriter writer, String name, Fieldable f) throws IOException;
 
-  
+
   /**
    * Returns the SortField instance that should be used to sort fields
    * of this type.
@@ -452,4 +587,36 @@ public abstract class FieldType extends FieldProperties {
             minInclusive, maxInclusive);
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Returns a Query instance for doing searches against a field.
+   * @param parser The {@link org.apache.solr.search.QParser} calling the method
+   * @param field The {@link org.apache.solr.schema.SchemaField} of the field to search
+   * @param externalVal The String representation of the value to search
+   * @return The {@link org.apache.lucene.search.Query} instance.  This implementation returns a {@link org.apache.lucene.search.TermQuery} but overriding queries may not
+   * 
+   */
+  public Query getFieldQuery(QParser parser, SchemaField field, String externalVal) {
+    return new TermQuery(new Term(field.getName(), toInternal(externalVal)));
+  }
+
+
+  /**
+   * Return a collection of all the Fields in the index where the {@link org.apache.solr.schema.SchemaField}
+   * @param polyField The instance of the {@link org.apache.solr.schema.SchemaField} to find the actual field names from
+   * @return The {@link java.util.Collection} of names of the actual fields that are a poly field.
+   *
+   *
+   */
+  /*protected Collection<String> getPolyFieldNames(SchemaField polyField){
+    if (polyField.isPolyField()) {
+      if (polyField != null) {
+        //we need the names of all the fields.  Do this lazily and then cache?
+
+
+      }
+    } //TODO: Should we throw an exception here in an else clause?
+    return Collections.emptyList();
+  }*/
+
+
 }
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/IndexSchema.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/IndexSchema.java
index 79aaa4e1869..1f94d364cc0 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/IndexSchema.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/IndexSchema.java
@@ -65,6 +65,30 @@ public final class IndexSchema {
   private float version;
   private final SolrResourceLoader loader;
 
+  private final HashMap<String, SchemaField> fields = new HashMap<String,SchemaField>();
+
+
+  private final HashMap<String, FieldType> fieldTypes = new HashMap<String,FieldType>();
+
+  private final List<SchemaField> fieldsWithDefaultValue = new ArrayList<SchemaField>();
+  private final Collection<SchemaField> requiredFields = new HashSet<SchemaField>();
+  private DynamicField[] dynamicFields;
+
+  private Analyzer analyzer;
+  private Analyzer queryAnalyzer;
+
+  private String defaultSearchFieldName=null;
+  private String queryParserDefaultOperator = "OR";
+
+
+  private final Map<String, List<CopyField>> copyFieldsMap = new HashMap<String, List<CopyField>>();
+  private DynamicCopy[] dynamicCopyFields;
+  /**
+   * keys are all fields copied to, count is num of copyField
+   * directives that target them.
+   */
+  private Map<SchemaField, Integer> copyFieldTargetCounts
+    = new HashMap<SchemaField, Integer>();
   /**
    * Constructs a schema using the specified file name using the normal
    * Config path directory searching rules.
@@ -156,10 +180,7 @@ public final class IndexSchema {
   @Deprecated
   public String getName() { return name; }
 
-  private final HashMap<String, SchemaField> fields = new HashMap<String,SchemaField>();
-  private final HashMap<String, FieldType> fieldTypes = new HashMap<String,FieldType>();
-  private final List<SchemaField> fieldsWithDefaultValue = new ArrayList<SchemaField>();
-  private final Collection<SchemaField> requiredFields = new HashSet<SchemaField>();
+  ;
 
   /**
    * Provides direct access to the Map containing all explicit
@@ -218,7 +239,7 @@ public final class IndexSchema {
    */
   public SimilarityFactory getSimilarityFactory() { return similarityFactory; }
 
-  private Analyzer analyzer;
+
 
   /**
    * Returns the Analyzer used when indexing documents for this index
@@ -230,7 +251,7 @@ public final class IndexSchema {
    */
   public Analyzer getAnalyzer() { return analyzer; }
 
-  private Analyzer queryAnalyzer;
+
 
   /**
    * Returns the Analyzer used when searching this index
@@ -242,8 +263,7 @@ public final class IndexSchema {
    */
   public Analyzer getQueryAnalyzer() { return queryAnalyzer; }
 
-  private String defaultSearchFieldName=null;
-  private String queryParserDefaultOperator = "OR";
+
 
   /**
    * A SolrQueryParser linked to this IndexSchema for field datatype
@@ -399,7 +419,7 @@ public final class IndexSchema {
       Config schemaConf = new Config(loader, "schema", is, "/schema/");
       Document document = schemaConf.getDocument();
       final XPath xpath = schemaConf.getXPath();
-
+      final List<SchemaAware> schemaAware = new ArrayList<SchemaAware>();
       Node nd = (Node) xpath.evaluate("/schema/@name", document, XPathConstants.NODE);
       if (nd==null) {
         log.warn("schema has no name!");
@@ -434,6 +454,9 @@ public final class IndexSchema {
             ft.setAnalyzer(analyzer);
             ft.setQueryAnalyzer(queryAnalyzer);
           }
+          if (ft instanceof SchemaAware){
+            schemaAware.add((SchemaAware) ft);
+          }
           return ft;
         }
         
@@ -494,7 +517,6 @@ public final class IndexSchema {
             SolrException.logOnce(log,null,t);
             SolrConfig.severeErrors.add( t );
           }
-          
           log.debug("field defined: " + f);
           if( f.getDefaultValue() != null ) {
             log.debug(name+" contains default value: " + f.getDefaultValue());
@@ -506,23 +528,7 @@ public final class IndexSchema {
           }
         } else if (node.getNodeName().equals("dynamicField")) {
           // make sure nothing else has the same path
-          boolean dup = false;
-          for( DynamicField df : dFields ) {
-            if( df.regex.equals( f.name ) ) {
-              String msg = "[schema.xml] Duplicate DynamicField definition for '"
-                + f.getName() + "' ignoring: "+f.toString();
-              
-              Throwable t = new SolrException( SolrException.ErrorCode.SERVER_ERROR, msg );
-              SolrException.logOnce(log,null,t);
-              SolrConfig.severeErrors.add( t );
-              dup = true;
-              break;
-            }
-          }
-          if( !dup ) {
-            dFields.add(new DynamicField(f));
-            log.debug("dynamic field defined: " + f);
-          }
+          addDynamicField(dFields, f);
         } else {
           // we should never get here
           throw new RuntimeException("Unknown field type");
@@ -534,6 +540,7 @@ public final class IndexSchema {
     // in DocumentBuilder.getDoc()
     requiredFields.addAll(getFieldsWithDefaultValue());
 
+
     // OK, now sort the dynamic fields largest to smallest size so we don't get
     // any false matches.  We want to act like a compiler tool and try and match
     // the largest string possible.
@@ -568,6 +575,9 @@ public final class IndexSchema {
           }
         };
       }
+      if (similarityFactory instanceof SchemaAware){
+        schemaAware.add((SchemaAware) similarityFactory);
+      }
       log.debug("using similarity factory" + similarityFactory.getClass().getName());
     }
 
@@ -652,7 +662,10 @@ public final class IndexSchema {
                       entry.getValue()+")");
         }
       }
-
+      //Run the callbacks on SchemaAware now that everything else is done
+      for (SchemaAware aware : schemaAware) {
+        aware.inform(this);
+      }
     } catch (SolrException e) {
       SolrConfig.severeErrors.add( e );
       throw e;
@@ -664,6 +677,56 @@ public final class IndexSchema {
 
     // create the field analyzers
     refreshAnalyzers();
+
+  }
+
+  private void addDynamicField(List<DynamicField> dFields, SchemaField f) {
+    boolean dup = isDuplicateDynField(dFields, f);
+    if( !dup ) {
+      addDynamicFieldNoDupCheck(dFields, f);
+    } else {
+      String msg = "[schema.xml] Duplicate DynamicField definition for '"
+              + f.getName() + "' ignoring: " + f.toString();
+
+      Throwable t = new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.SERVER_ERROR, msg);
+      SolrException.logOnce(log, null, t);
+      SolrConfig.severeErrors.add(t);
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Register one or more new Dynamic Field with the Schema.
+   * @param f The {@link org.apache.solr.schema.SchemaField}
+   */
+  public void registerDynamicField(SchemaField ... f) {
+    List<DynamicField> dynFields = new ArrayList<DynamicField>(Arrays.asList(dynamicFields));
+    for (SchemaField field : f) {
+      if (isDuplicateDynField(dynFields, field) == false) {
+        log.debug("dynamic field creation for schema field: " + field.getName());
+        addDynamicFieldNoDupCheck(dynFields, field);
+      } else {
+        log.debug("dynamic field creation avoided: dynamic field: [" + field.getName() + "] " +
+                "already defined in the schema!");
+      }
+    }
+    Collections.sort(dynFields);
+    dynamicFields = (DynamicField[]) dynFields.toArray(new DynamicField[dynFields.size()]);
+  }
+
+  private void addDynamicFieldNoDupCheck(List<DynamicField> dFields, SchemaField f) {
+    dFields.add(new DynamicField(f));
+    log.debug("dynamic field defined: " + f);
+  }
+
+  private boolean isDuplicateDynField(List<DynamicField> dFields, SchemaField f) {
+    boolean dup = false;
+    for( DynamicField df : dFields ) {
+      if( df.regex.equals( f.name ) ) {
+        dup = true;
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+    return dup;
   }
 
   public void registerCopyField( String source, String dest )
@@ -987,7 +1050,7 @@ public final class IndexSchema {
     }
   }
 
-  private DynamicField[] dynamicFields;
+
   public SchemaField[] getDynamicFieldPrototypes() {
     SchemaField[] df = new SchemaField[dynamicFields.length];
     for (int i=0;i<dynamicFields.length;i++) {
@@ -1038,42 +1101,43 @@ public final class IndexSchema {
     }
 
     return false;
-  }
-  
+  }   
+
   /**
    * Returns the SchemaField that should be used for the specified field name, or
    * null if none exists.
    *
-   * @param fieldName may be an explicitly defined field, or a name that
+   * @param fieldName may be an explicitly defined field, a PolyField, or a name that
    * matches a dynamic field.
    * @see #getFieldType
+   * @see #getField(String)
+   * @return The {@link org.apache.solr.schema.SchemaField}
    */
   public SchemaField getFieldOrNull(String fieldName) {
-     SchemaField f = fields.get(fieldName);
+    SchemaField f = fields.get(fieldName);
     if (f != null) return f;
 
     for (DynamicField df : dynamicFields) {
       if (df.matches(fieldName)) return df.makeSchemaField(fieldName);
     }
-    
+
     return f;
   }
 
   /**
    * Returns the SchemaField that should be used for the specified field name
    *
-   * @param fieldName may be an explicitly defined field, or a name that
+   * @param fieldName may be an explicitly defined field, a PolyField type, or a name that
    * matches a dynamic field.
    * @throws SolrException if no such field exists
    * @see #getFieldType
+   * @see #getFieldOrNull(String)
+   * @return The {@link SchemaField}
    */
   public SchemaField getField(String fieldName) {
-     SchemaField f = fields.get(fieldName);
+    SchemaField f = getFieldOrNull(fieldName);
     if (f != null) return f;
 
-    for (DynamicField df : dynamicFields) {
-      if (df.matches(fieldName)) return df.makeSchemaField(fieldName);
-    }
 
     // Hmmm, default field could also be implemented with a dynamic field of "*".
     // It would have to be special-cased and only used if nothing else matched.
@@ -1104,6 +1168,16 @@ public final class IndexSchema {
     return getDynamicFieldType(fieldName);
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Given the name of a {@link org.apache.solr.schema.FieldType} (not to be confused with {@link #getFieldType(String)} which
+   * takes in the name of a field), return the {@link org.apache.solr.schema.FieldType}.
+   * @param fieldTypeName The name of the {@link org.apache.solr.schema.FieldType}
+   * @return The {@link org.apache.solr.schema.FieldType} or null.
+   */
+  public FieldType getFieldTypeByName(String fieldTypeName){
+    return fieldTypes.get(fieldTypeName);
+  }
+
   /**
    * Returns the FieldType for the specified field name.
    *
@@ -1149,15 +1223,22 @@ public final class IndexSchema {
     return null;
   };
 
-
-  private final Map<String, List<CopyField>> copyFieldsMap = new HashMap<String, List<CopyField>>();
-  private DynamicCopy[] dynamicCopyFields;
   /**
-   * keys are all fields copied to, count is num of copyField
-   * directives that target them.
+   *
+   * @param fieldName The name of the field
+   * @return the {@link FieldType} or a {@link org.apache.solr.common.SolrException} if the field is not a poly field.
    */
-  private Map<SchemaField, Integer> copyFieldTargetCounts
-    = new HashMap<SchemaField, Integer>();
+  public FieldType getPolyFieldType(String fieldName){
+    SchemaField f = fields.get(fieldName);
+    if (f != null && f.isPolyField()) return f.getType();
+    throw new SolrException( SolrException.ErrorCode.BAD_REQUEST,"undefined field or not a poly field "+fieldName);
+  }
+
+  public FieldType getPolyFieldTypeNoEx(String fieldName){
+    SchemaField f = fields.get(fieldName);
+    if (f != null && f.isPolyField()) return f.getType();
+    return null;
+  }
 
   /**
    * Get all copy fields, both the static and the dynamic ones.
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/PointType.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/PointType.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..79cec4e0e6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/PointType.java
@@ -0,0 +1,276 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.solr.schema;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.document.Field;
+import org.apache.lucene.document.Fieldable;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanClause;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanQuery;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.SortField;
+import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
+import org.apache.solr.common.params.MapSolrParams;
+import org.apache.solr.common.params.SolrParams;
+import org.apache.solr.request.TextResponseWriter;
+import org.apache.solr.request.XMLWriter;
+import org.apache.solr.search.MultiValueSource;
+import org.apache.solr.search.QParser;
+import org.apache.solr.search.function.DocValues;
+import org.apache.solr.search.function.ValueSource;
+import org.apache.solr.search.function.distance.DistanceUtils;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+/**
+ * A point type that indexes a point in an n-dimensional space as separate fields and uses
+ * range queries for bounding box calculations.
+ * <p/>
+ * <p/>
+ * NOTE: There can only be one sub type
+ */
+public class PointType extends CoordinateFieldType {
+  /**
+   * 2 dimensional by default
+   */
+  public static final int DEFAULT_DIMENSION = 2;
+  public static final String DIMENSION = "dimension";
+
+  protected IndexSchema schema;   // needed for retrieving SchemaFields
+
+
+  @Override
+  protected void init(IndexSchema schema, Map<String, String> args) {
+    SolrParams p = new MapSolrParams(args);
+    dimension = p.getInt(DIMENSION, DEFAULT_DIMENSION);
+    if (dimension < 1) {
+      throw new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.BAD_REQUEST,
+              "The dimension must be > 0: " + dimension);
+    }
+    args.remove(DIMENSION);
+    this.schema = schema;
+    super.init(schema, args);
+
+  }
+
+
+  @Override
+  public boolean isPolyField() {
+    return true;   // really only true if the field is indexed
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public Fieldable[] createFields(SchemaField field, String externalVal, float boost) {
+    String[] point = DistanceUtils.parsePoint(null, externalVal, dimension);
+    return createFields(field, dynFieldProps, subType, externalVal, boost, point);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public ValueSource getValueSource(SchemaField field, QParser parser) {
+    return new PointTypeValueSource(field, dimension, subType, parser);
+  }
+
+
+  //It never makes sense to create a single field, so make it impossible to happen
+  @Override
+  public Field createField(SchemaField field, String externalVal, float boost) {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("PointType uses multiple fields.  field=" + field.getName());
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void write(XMLWriter xmlWriter, String name, Fieldable f) throws IOException {
+    xmlWriter.writeStr(name, f.stringValue());
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void write(TextResponseWriter writer, String name, Fieldable f) throws IOException {
+    writer.writeStr(name, f.stringValue(), false);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public SortField getSortField(SchemaField field, boolean top) {
+    throw new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.BAD_REQUEST, "Sorting not suported on DualPointType " + field.getName());
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  /**
+   * Care should be taken in calling this with higher order dimensions for performance reasons.
+   */
+  public Query getRangeQuery(QParser parser, SchemaField field, String part1, String part2, boolean minInclusive, boolean maxInclusive) {
+    //Query could look like: [x1,y1 TO x2,y2] for 2 dimension, but could look like: [x1,y1,z1 TO x2,y2,z2], and can be extrapolated to n-dimensions
+    //thus, this query essentially creates a box, cube, etc.
+    String[] p1 = DistanceUtils.parsePoint(null, part1, dimension);
+    String[] p2 = DistanceUtils.parsePoint(null, part2, dimension);
+    BooleanQuery result = new BooleanQuery(true);
+    String name = field.getName() + "_";
+    String suffix = POLY_FIELD_SEPARATOR + subType.typeName;
+    int len = name.length();
+    StringBuilder bldr = new StringBuilder(len + 3 + suffix.length());//should be enough buffer to handle most values of j.
+    bldr.append(name);
+    for (int i = 0; i < dimension; i++) {
+      bldr.append(i).append(suffix);
+      SchemaField subSF = schema.getField(bldr.toString());
+      // points must currently be ordered... should we support specifying any two opposite corner points?
+
+      /*new TermRangeQuery(
+     field.getName() + i + POLY_FIELD_SEPARATOR + subType.typeName,
+     subType.toInternal(p1[i]),
+     subType.toInternal(p2[i]),
+     minInclusive, maxInclusive);*/
+      result.add(subType.getRangeQuery(parser, subSF, p1[i], p2[i], minInclusive, maxInclusive), BooleanClause.Occur.MUST);
+      bldr.setLength(len);
+    }
+    return result;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public Query getFieldQuery(QParser parser, SchemaField field, String externalVal) {
+    Query result = null;
+
+    String[] p1 = DistanceUtils.parsePoint(null, externalVal, dimension);
+    //TODO: should we assert that p1.length == dimension?
+    BooleanQuery bq = new BooleanQuery(true);
+    String name = field.getName() + "_";
+    String suffix = POLY_FIELD_SEPARATOR + subType.typeName;
+    int len = name.length();
+    StringBuilder bldr = new StringBuilder(len + 3 + suffix.length());//should be enough buffer to handle most values of j.
+    bldr.append(name);
+    for (int i = 0; i < dimension; i++) {
+      bldr.append(i).append(suffix);
+      SchemaField sf1 = schema.getField(bldr.toString());
+      Query tq = subType.getFieldQuery(parser, sf1, p1[i]);
+      //new TermQuery(new Term(bldr.toString(), subType.toInternal(p1[i])));
+      bq.add(tq, BooleanClause.Occur.MUST);
+      bldr.setLength(len);
+    }
+    result = bq;
+
+    return result;
+  }
+
+  class PointTypeValueSource extends MultiValueSource {
+  protected SchemaField field;
+  protected FieldType subType;
+  protected int dimension;
+  private QParser parser;
+
+  public PointTypeValueSource(SchemaField field, int dimension, FieldType subType, QParser parser) {
+    this.field = field;
+    this.dimension = dimension;
+    this.subType = subType;
+    this.parser = parser;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void createWeight(Map context, Searcher searcher) throws IOException {
+    String name = field.getName();
+    String suffix = FieldType.POLY_FIELD_SEPARATOR + subType.typeName;
+    int len = name.length();
+    StringBuilder bldr = new StringBuilder(len + 3 + suffix.length());//should be enough buffer to handle most values of j.
+    bldr.append(name);
+    for (int i = 0; i < dimension; i++) {
+      bldr.append(i).append(suffix);
+      SchemaField sf = schema.getField(bldr.toString());
+      subType.getValueSource(sf, parser).createWeight(context, searcher);
+      bldr.setLength(len);
+    }
+  }
+
+  public int dimension() {
+    return dimension;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public DocValues getValues(Map context, IndexReader reader) throws IOException {
+    final DocValues[] valsArr1 = new DocValues[dimension];
+    String name = field.getName();
+    String suffix = FieldType.POLY_FIELD_SEPARATOR + subType.typeName;
+    int len = name.length();
+    StringBuilder bldr = new StringBuilder(len + 3 + suffix.length());//should be enough buffer to handle most values of j.
+    bldr.append(name);
+    for (int i = 0; i < dimension; i++) {
+      bldr.append(i).append(suffix);
+      SchemaField sf = schema.getField(bldr.toString());
+      valsArr1[i] = subType.getValueSource(sf, parser).getValues(context, reader);
+      bldr.setLength(len);
+    }
+    return new DocValues() {
+      //TODO: not sure how to handle the other types at this moment
+      @Override
+      public void doubleVal(int doc, double[] vals) {
+        //TODO: check whether vals.length == dimension or assume its handled elsewhere?
+        for (int i = 0; i < dimension; i++) {
+          vals[i] = valsArr1[i].doubleVal(doc);
+        }
+      }
+
+
+      @Override
+      public String toString(int doc) {
+        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("point(");
+        boolean firstTime = true;
+        for (DocValues docValues : valsArr1) {
+          if (firstTime == false) {
+            sb.append(",");
+          } else {
+            firstTime = true;
+          }
+          sb.append(docValues.toString(doc));
+        }
+        sb.append(")");
+        return sb.toString();
+      }
+    };
+  }
+
+  public String description() {
+    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+    sb.append("point(");
+    sb.append("fld=").append(field.name).append(", subType=").append(subType.typeName)
+            .append(", dimension=").append(dimension).append(')');
+    return sb.toString();
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public boolean equals(Object o) {
+    if (this == o) return true;
+    if (!(o instanceof PointTypeValueSource)) return false;
+
+    PointTypeValueSource that = (PointTypeValueSource) o;
+
+    if (dimension != that.dimension) return false;
+    if (!field.equals(that.field)) return false;
+    if (!subType.equals(that.subType)) return false;
+
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public int hashCode() {
+    int result = field.hashCode();
+    result = 31 * result + subType.hashCode();
+    result = 31 * result + dimension;
+    return result;
+  }
+}
+
+}
+
+
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/SchemaAware.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/SchemaAware.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..34ee8e60779
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/SchemaAware.java
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+package org.apache.solr.schema;
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+
+/**
+* An interface that can be extended to provide a callback mechanism for
+* informing an {@link IndexSchema} instance of changes to it, dynamically
+* performed at runtime.
+*
+* @since SOLR-1131
+ *
+ **/
+public interface SchemaAware {
+  /**
+   * Informs the {@link IndexSchema} provided by the <code>schema</code>
+   * parameter of an event (e.g., a new {@link FieldType} was added, etc.
+   *
+   * @param schema
+   *          The {@link IndexSchema} instance that inform of the update to.
+   *
+   * @since SOLR-1131
+   */
+  public void inform(IndexSchema schema);
+}
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/SchemaField.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/SchemaField.java
index 4ac2e362d80..3e3d1e2705f 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/SchemaField.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/SchemaField.java
@@ -90,9 +90,23 @@ public final class SchemaField extends FieldProperties {
   boolean isTokenized() { return (properties & TOKENIZED)!=0; }
   boolean isBinary() { return (properties & BINARY)!=0; }
 
+
   public Field createField(String val, float boost) {
     return type.createField(this,val,boost);
   }
+  
+  public Fieldable[] createFields(String val, float boost) {
+    return type.createFields(this,val,boost);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * If true, then use {@link #createFields(String, float)}, else use {@link #createField} to save an extra allocation
+   * @return true if this field is a poly field
+   */
+  public boolean isPolyField(){
+    return type.isPolyField();
+  }
+
 
   @Override
   public String toString() {
@@ -119,6 +133,29 @@ public final class SchemaField extends FieldProperties {
 
 
   static SchemaField create(String name, FieldType ft, Map<String,String> props) {
+
+    String defaultValue = null;
+    if( props.containsKey( "default" ) ) {
+    	defaultValue = (String)props.get( "default" );
+    }
+    return new SchemaField(name, ft, calcProps(name, ft, props), defaultValue );
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Create a SchemaField w/ the props specified.  Does not support a default value.
+   * @param name The name of the SchemaField
+   * @param ft The {@link org.apache.solr.schema.FieldType} of the field
+   * @param props The props.  See {@link #calcProps(String, org.apache.solr.schema.FieldType, java.util.Map)}
+   * @param defValue The default Value for the field
+   * @return The SchemaField
+   *
+   * @see #create(String, FieldType, java.util.Map)
+   */
+  static SchemaField create(String name, FieldType ft, int props, String defValue){
+    return new SchemaField(name, ft, props, defValue);
+  }
+
+  static int calcProps(String name, FieldType ft, Map<String, String> props) {
     int trueProps = parseProperties(props,true);
     int falseProps = parseProperties(props,false);
 
@@ -166,12 +203,7 @@ public final class SchemaField extends FieldProperties {
 
     p &= ~falseProps;
     p |= trueProps;
-
-    String defaultValue = null;
-    if( props.containsKey( "default" ) ) {
-    	defaultValue = (String)props.get( "default" );
-    }
-    return new SchemaField(name, ft, p, defaultValue );
+    return p;
   }
 
   public String getDefaultValue() {
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/TextField.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/TextField.java
index f82e4071566..4c7e88fbb74 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/TextField.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/schema/TextField.java
@@ -18,12 +18,28 @@
 package org.apache.solr.schema;
 
 import org.apache.lucene.search.SortField;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.PhraseQuery;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.TermQuery;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanQuery;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanClause;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.MultiPhraseQuery;
 import org.apache.lucene.document.Fieldable;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
+import org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.PositionIncrementAttribute;
+import org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.TermAttribute;
+import org.apache.lucene.analysis.CachingTokenFilter;
+import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream;
+import org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer;
 import org.apache.solr.request.XMLWriter;
 import org.apache.solr.request.TextResponseWriter;
+import org.apache.solr.search.QParser;
 
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.StringReader;
 
 /** <code>TextField</code> is the basic type for configurable text analysis.
  * Analyzers for field types using this implementation should be defined in the schema.
@@ -48,4 +64,190 @@ public class TextField extends CompressableField {
   public void write(TextResponseWriter writer, String name, Fieldable f) throws IOException {
     writer.writeStr(name, f.stringValue(), true);
   }
+
+  @Override
+  public Query getFieldQuery(QParser parser, SchemaField field, String externalVal) {
+    return parseFieldQuery(parser, getQueryAnalyzer(), field.getName(), externalVal);
+  }
+
+
+  static Query parseFieldQuery(QParser parser, Analyzer analyzer, String field, String queryText) {
+    int phraseSlop = 0;
+    boolean enablePositionIncrements = true;
+
+    // most of the following code is taken from the Lucene QueryParser
+
+    // Use the analyzer to get all the tokens, and then build a TermQuery,
+    // PhraseQuery, or nothing based on the term count
+
+    TokenStream source;
+    try {
+      source = analyzer.reusableTokenStream(field, new StringReader(queryText));
+      source.reset();
+    } catch (IOException e) {
+      source = analyzer.tokenStream(field, new StringReader(queryText));
+    }
+    CachingTokenFilter buffer = new CachingTokenFilter(source);
+    TermAttribute termAtt = null;
+    PositionIncrementAttribute posIncrAtt = null;
+    int numTokens = 0;
+
+    boolean success = false;
+    try {
+      buffer.reset();
+      success = true;
+    } catch (IOException e) {
+      // success==false if we hit an exception
+    }
+    if (success) {
+      if (buffer.hasAttribute(TermAttribute.class)) {
+        termAtt = (TermAttribute) buffer.getAttribute(TermAttribute.class);
+      }
+      if (buffer.hasAttribute(PositionIncrementAttribute.class)) {
+        posIncrAtt = (PositionIncrementAttribute) buffer.getAttribute(PositionIncrementAttribute.class);
+      }
+    }
+
+    int positionCount = 0;
+    boolean severalTokensAtSamePosition = false;
+
+    boolean hasMoreTokens = false;
+    if (termAtt != null) {
+      try {
+        hasMoreTokens = buffer.incrementToken();
+        while (hasMoreTokens) {
+          numTokens++;
+          int positionIncrement = (posIncrAtt != null) ? posIncrAtt.getPositionIncrement() : 1;
+          if (positionIncrement != 0) {
+            positionCount += positionIncrement;
+          } else {
+            severalTokensAtSamePosition = true;
+          }
+          hasMoreTokens = buffer.incrementToken();
+        }
+      } catch (IOException e) {
+        // ignore
+      }
+    }
+    try {
+      // rewind the buffer stream
+      buffer.reset();
+
+      // close original stream - all tokens buffered
+      source.close();
+    }
+    catch (IOException e) {
+      // ignore
+    }
+
+    if (numTokens == 0)
+      return null;
+    else if (numTokens == 1) {
+      String term = null;
+      try {
+        boolean hasNext = buffer.incrementToken();
+        assert hasNext == true;
+        term = termAtt.term();
+      } catch (IOException e) {
+        // safe to ignore, because we know the number of tokens
+      }
+      // return newTermQuery(new Term(field, term));
+      return new TermQuery(new Term(field, term));
+    } else {
+      if (severalTokensAtSamePosition) {
+        if (positionCount == 1) {
+          // no phrase query:
+          // BooleanQuery q = newBooleanQuery(true);
+          BooleanQuery q = new BooleanQuery(true);
+          for (int i = 0; i < numTokens; i++) {
+            String term = null;
+            try {
+              boolean hasNext = buffer.incrementToken();
+              assert hasNext == true;
+              term = termAtt.term();
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+              // safe to ignore, because we know the number of tokens
+            }
+
+            // Query currentQuery = newTermQuery(new Term(field, term));
+            Query currentQuery = new TermQuery(new Term(field, term));
+            q.add(currentQuery, BooleanClause.Occur.SHOULD);
+          }
+          return q;
+        }
+        else {
+          // phrase query:
+          // MultiPhraseQuery mpq = newMultiPhraseQuery();
+          MultiPhraseQuery mpq = new MultiPhraseQuery();
+          mpq.setSlop(phraseSlop);
+          List multiTerms = new ArrayList();
+          int position = -1;
+          for (int i = 0; i < numTokens; i++) {
+            String term = null;
+            int positionIncrement = 1;
+            try {
+              boolean hasNext = buffer.incrementToken();
+              assert hasNext == true;
+              term = termAtt.term();
+              if (posIncrAtt != null) {
+                positionIncrement = posIncrAtt.getPositionIncrement();
+              }
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+              // safe to ignore, because we know the number of tokens
+            }
+
+            if (positionIncrement > 0 && multiTerms.size() > 0) {
+              if (enablePositionIncrements) {
+                mpq.add((Term[])multiTerms.toArray(new Term[0]),position);
+              } else {
+                mpq.add((Term[])multiTerms.toArray(new Term[0]));
+              }
+              multiTerms.clear();
+            }
+            position += positionIncrement;
+            multiTerms.add(new Term(field, term));
+          }
+          if (enablePositionIncrements) {
+            mpq.add((Term[])multiTerms.toArray(new Term[0]),position);
+          } else {
+            mpq.add((Term[])multiTerms.toArray(new Term[0]));
+          }
+          return mpq;
+        }
+      }
+      else {
+        // PhraseQuery pq = newPhraseQuery();
+        PhraseQuery pq = new PhraseQuery();
+        pq.setSlop(phraseSlop);
+        int position = -1;
+
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < numTokens; i++) {
+          String term = null;
+          int positionIncrement = 1;
+
+          try {
+            boolean hasNext = buffer.incrementToken();
+            assert hasNext == true;
+            term = termAtt.term();
+            if (posIncrAtt != null) {
+              positionIncrement = posIncrAtt.getPositionIncrement();
+            }
+          } catch (IOException e) {
+            // safe to ignore, because we know the number of tokens
+          }
+
+          if (enablePositionIncrements) {
+            position += positionIncrement;
+            pq.add(new Term(field, term),position);
+          } else {
+            pq.add(new Term(field, term));
+          }
+        }
+        return pq;
+      }
+    }
+
+  }
+
 }
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/FieldQParserPlugin.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/FieldQParserPlugin.java
index ecbe658cf4e..ef399ae7d3d 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/FieldQParserPlugin.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/FieldQParserPlugin.java
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
 import org.apache.solr.request.SolrQueryRequest;
 import org.apache.solr.schema.FieldType;
 import org.apache.solr.schema.TextField;
+import org.apache.solr.schema.SchemaField;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.StringReader;
@@ -52,99 +53,9 @@ public class FieldQParserPlugin extends QParserPlugin {
       public Query parse() throws ParseException {
         String field = localParams.get(QueryParsing.F);
         String queryText = localParams.get(QueryParsing.V);
-        FieldType ft = req.getSchema().getFieldType(field);
-        if (!(ft instanceof TextField)) {
-          String internal = ft.toInternal(queryText);
-          return new TermQuery(new Term(field, internal));
-        }
-
-        int phraseSlop = 0;
-        Analyzer analyzer = req.getSchema().getQueryAnalyzer();
-
-        // most of the following code is taken from the Lucene QueryParser
-
-        // Use the analyzer to get all the tokens, and then build a TermQuery,
-        // PhraseQuery, or nothing based on the term count
-
-        TokenStream source = null;
-        try {
-          source = analyzer.reusableTokenStream(field, new StringReader(queryText));
-          source.reset();
-        } catch (IOException e) {
-          throw new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.BAD_REQUEST, e);  
-        }
-        ArrayList<Token> lst = new ArrayList<Token>();
-        Token t;
-        int positionCount = 0;
-        boolean severalTokensAtSamePosition = false;
-
-        while (true) {
-          try {
-            t = source.next();
-          }
-          catch (IOException e) {
-            t = null;
-          }
-          if (t == null)
-            break;
-          lst.add(t);
-          if (t.getPositionIncrement() != 0)
-            positionCount += t.getPositionIncrement();
-          else
-            severalTokensAtSamePosition = true;
-        }
-        try {
-          source.close();
-        }
-        catch (IOException e) {
-          // ignore
-        }
-
-        if (lst.size() == 0)
-          return null;
-        else if (lst.size() == 1) {
-          t = lst.get(0);
-          return new TermQuery(new Term(field, new String(t.termBuffer(), 0, t.termLength())));
-        } else {
-          if (severalTokensAtSamePosition) {
-            if (positionCount == 1) {
-              // no phrase query:
-              BooleanQuery q = new BooleanQuery(true);
-              for (int i = 0; i < lst.size(); i++) {
-                t = (org.apache.lucene.analysis.Token) lst.get(i);
-                TermQuery currentQuery = new TermQuery(
-                        new Term(field, new String(t.termBuffer(), 0, t.termLength())));
-                q.add(currentQuery, BooleanClause.Occur.SHOULD);
-              }
-              return q;
-            }
-            else {
-              // phrase query:
-              MultiPhraseQuery mpq = new MultiPhraseQuery();
-              mpq.setSlop(phraseSlop);
-              ArrayList multiTerms = new ArrayList();
-              for (int i = 0; i < lst.size(); i++) {
-                t = (org.apache.lucene.analysis.Token) lst.get(i);
-                if (t.getPositionIncrement() == 1 && multiTerms.size() > 0) {
-                  mpq.add((Term[])multiTerms.toArray(new Term[0]));
-                  multiTerms.clear();
-                }
-                multiTerms.add(new Term(field, new String(t.termBuffer(), 0, t.termLength())));
-              }
-              mpq.add((Term[])multiTerms.toArray(new Term[0]));
-              return mpq;
-            }
-          }
-          else {
-            PhraseQuery q = new PhraseQuery();
-            q.setSlop(phraseSlop);
-            for (int i = 0; i < lst.size(); i++) {
-              Token token = lst.get(i);
-              q.add(new Term(field, new String(token.termBuffer(), 0, token.termLength())));
-            }
-            return q;
-          }
-        }
+        SchemaField sf = req.getSchema().getField(field);
+        FieldType ft = sf.getType();
+        return ft.getFieldQuery(this, sf, queryText);
       }
     };
   }
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/MultiValueSource.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/MultiValueSource.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..83738a2a308
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/MultiValueSource.java
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+package org.apache.solr.search;
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import org.apache.solr.search.function.ValueSource;
+
+
+/**
+ * A {@link ValueSource} that abstractly represents {@link ValueSource}s for
+ * poly fields, and other things.
+ **/
+public abstract class MultiValueSource extends ValueSource {
+
+  public abstract int dimension();
+}
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/SolrQueryParser.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/SolrQueryParser.java
index d55107f35a8..48ec61fb49a 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/SolrQueryParser.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/SolrQueryParser.java
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import org.apache.solr.schema.IndexSchema;
 import org.apache.solr.schema.SchemaField;
 import org.apache.solr.schema.TrieField;
 import org.apache.solr.schema.SchemaField;
+import org.apache.solr.schema.TextField;
 
 // TODO: implement the analysis of simple fields with
 // FieldType.toInternal() instead of going through the
@@ -145,6 +146,12 @@ public class SolrQueryParser extends QueryParser {
         return parser.subQuery(queryText, null).getQuery();
       }
     }
+    //Intercept poly fields, as they get expanded by default to an OR clause of
+    SchemaField sf = schema.getField(field);
+    //TODO: is there anyway to avoid this instance of check?
+    if (sf != null&& !(sf.getType() instanceof TextField)){//we have a poly field, deal with it specially by delegating to the FieldType
+      return sf.getType().getFieldQuery(parser, sf, queryText); 
+    }
 
     // default to a normal field query
     return super.getFieldQuery(field, queryText);
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/ToMultiValueSource.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/ToMultiValueSource.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ed509ea05f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/ToMultiValueSource.java
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+package org.apache.solr.search;
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher;
+import org.apache.solr.search.function.DocValues;
+import org.apache.solr.search.function.ValueSource;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+
+/**
+ * Converts individual ValueSource instances to leverage the DocValues *Val functions that work with multiple values,
+ * i.e. {@link org.apache.solr.search.function.DocValues#doubleVal(int, double[])}
+ */
+//Not crazy about the name, but...
+public class ToMultiValueSource extends MultiValueSource {
+  protected List<ValueSource> sources;
+
+
+  public ToMultiValueSource(List<ValueSource> sources) {
+    this.sources = sources;
+  }
+
+  public List<ValueSource> getSources() {
+    return sources;
+  }
+
+  public int dimension() {
+    return sources.size();
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public DocValues getValues(Map context, IndexReader reader) throws IOException {
+    int size = sources.size();
+    final DocValues[] valsArr = new DocValues[size];
+    for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
+      valsArr[i] = sources.get(i).getValues(context, reader);
+    }
+    return new DocValues() {
+      @Override
+      public void byteVal(int doc, byte[] vals) {
+        for (int i = 0; i < valsArr.length; i++) {
+          vals[i] = valsArr[i].byteVal(doc);
+        }
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public void shortVal(int doc, short[] vals) {
+        for (int i = 0; i < valsArr.length; i++) {
+          vals[i] = valsArr[i].shortVal(doc);
+        }
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public void floatVal(int doc, float[] vals) {
+        for (int i = 0; i < valsArr.length; i++) {
+          vals[i] = valsArr[i].floatVal(doc);
+        }
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public void intVal(int doc, int[] vals) {
+        for (int i = 0; i < valsArr.length; i++) {
+          vals[i] = valsArr[i].intVal(doc);
+        }
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public void longVal(int doc, long[] vals) {
+        for (int i = 0; i < valsArr.length; i++) {
+          vals[i] = valsArr[i].longVal(doc);
+        }
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public void doubleVal(int doc, double[] vals) {
+        for (int i = 0; i < valsArr.length; i++) {
+          vals[i] = valsArr[i].doubleVal(doc);
+        }
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public void strVal(int doc, String[] vals) {
+        for (int i = 0; i < valsArr.length; i++) {
+          vals[i] = valsArr[i].strVal(doc);
+        }
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public String toString(int doc) {
+        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+        sb.append("toMultiVS(");
+        boolean firstTime = true;
+        for (DocValues vals : valsArr) {
+          if (firstTime) {
+            firstTime = false;
+          } else {
+            sb.append(',');
+          }
+          sb.append(vals.toString(doc));
+        }
+        sb.append(')');
+        return sb.toString();
+      }
+    };
+  }
+
+  public void createWeight(Map context, Searcher searcher) throws IOException {
+    for (ValueSource source : sources)
+      source.createWeight(context, searcher);
+  }
+
+
+  public String description() {
+    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+    sb.append("toMultiVS(");
+    boolean firstTime = true;
+    for (ValueSource source : sources) {
+      if (firstTime) {
+        firstTime = false;
+      } else {
+        sb.append(',');
+      }
+      sb.append(source);
+    }
+    sb.append(")");
+    return sb.toString();
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public boolean equals(Object o) {
+    if (this == o) return true;
+    if (!(o instanceof ToMultiValueSource)) return false;
+
+    ToMultiValueSource that = (ToMultiValueSource) o;
+
+    if (!sources.equals(that.sources)) return false;
+
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public int hashCode() {
+    return sources.hashCode();
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/ValueSourceParser.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/ValueSourceParser.java
index 76a570123d2..ce43761860e 100755
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/ValueSourceParser.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/ValueSourceParser.java
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Collections;
 
 /**
  * A factory that parses user queries to generate ValueSource instances.
@@ -202,6 +203,11 @@ public abstract class ValueSourceParser implements NamedListInitializedPlugin {
         };
       }
     });
+    addParser("toMultiVS", new ValueSourceParser(){
+      public ValueSource parse(FunctionQParser fp) throws ParseException{
+        return new ToMultiValueSource(fp.parseValueSourceList());
+      }
+    });
     addParser("query", new ValueSourceParser() {
       // boost(query($q),rating)
       public ValueSource parse(FunctionQParser fp) throws ParseException {
@@ -224,22 +230,47 @@ public abstract class ValueSourceParser implements NamedListInitializedPlugin {
     addParser("hsin", new ValueSourceParser() {
       public ValueSource parse(FunctionQParser fp) throws ParseException {
 
-        ValueSource x1 = fp.parseValueSource();
-        ValueSource y1 = fp.parseValueSource();
-        ValueSource x2 = fp.parseValueSource();
-        ValueSource y2 = fp.parseValueSource();
         double radius = fp.parseDouble();
+        MultiValueSource pv1;
+        MultiValueSource pv2;
 
-        return new HaversineFunction(x1, y1, x2, y2, radius);
+        ValueSource one = fp.parseValueSource();
+        ValueSource two = fp.parseValueSource();
+        if (fp.hasMoreArguments()) {
+          List<ValueSource> s1 = new ArrayList<ValueSource>();
+          s1.add(one);
+          s1.add(two);
+          pv1 = new ToMultiValueSource(s1);
+          ValueSource x2 = fp.parseValueSource();
+          ValueSource y2 = fp.parseValueSource();
+          List<ValueSource> s2 = new ArrayList<ValueSource>();
+          s2.add(x2);
+          s2.add(y2);
+          pv2 = new ToMultiValueSource(s2);
+        } else {
+          //check to see if we have multiValue source
+          if (one instanceof MultiValueSource && two instanceof MultiValueSource){
+            pv1 = (MultiValueSource) one;
+            pv2 = (MultiValueSource) two;
+          } else {
+            throw new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.BAD_REQUEST,
+                    "Input must either be 2 MultiValueSources, or there must be 4 ValueSources");
+          }
+        }
+        boolean convert = false;
+        if (fp.hasMoreArguments()){
+          convert = Boolean.parseBoolean(fp.parseArg());
+        }
+        return new HaversineFunction(pv1, pv2, radius, convert);
       }
     });
 
     addParser("ghhsin", new ValueSourceParser() {
       public ValueSource parse(FunctionQParser fp) throws ParseException {
+        double radius = fp.parseDouble();
 
         ValueSource gh1 = fp.parseValueSource();
         ValueSource gh2 = fp.parseValueSource();
-        double radius = fp.parseDouble();
 
         return new GeohashHaversineFunction(gh1, gh2, radius);
       }
@@ -393,15 +424,9 @@ public abstract class ValueSourceParser implements NamedListInitializedPlugin {
     addParser("sqedist", new ValueSourceParser() {
       public ValueSource parse(FunctionQParser fp) throws ParseException {
         List<ValueSource> sources = fp.parseValueSourceList();
-        if (sources.size() % 2 != 0) {
-          throw new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.BAD_REQUEST, "Illegal number of sources.  There must be an even number of sources");
-        }
-        int dim = sources.size() / 2;
-        List<ValueSource> sources1 = new ArrayList<ValueSource>(dim);
-        List<ValueSource> sources2 = new ArrayList<ValueSource>(dim);
-        //Get dim value sources for the first vector
-        splitSources(dim, sources, sources1, sources2);
-        return new SquaredEuclideanFunction(sources1, sources2);
+        MVResult mvr = getMultiValueSources(sources);
+
+        return new SquaredEuclideanFunction(mvr.mv1, mvr.mv2);
       }
     });
 
@@ -409,14 +434,8 @@ public abstract class ValueSourceParser implements NamedListInitializedPlugin {
       public ValueSource parse(FunctionQParser fp) throws ParseException {
         float power = fp.parseFloat();
         List<ValueSource> sources = fp.parseValueSourceList();
-        if (sources.size() % 2 != 0) {
-          throw new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.BAD_REQUEST, "Illegal number of sources.  There must be an even number of sources");
-        }
-        int dim = sources.size() / 2;
-        List<ValueSource> sources1 = new ArrayList<ValueSource>(dim);
-        List<ValueSource> sources2 = new ArrayList<ValueSource>(dim);
-        splitSources(dim, sources, sources1, sources2);
-        return new VectorDistanceFunction(power, sources1, sources2);
+        MVResult mvr = getMultiValueSources(sources);
+        return new VectorDistanceFunction(power, mvr.mv1, mvr.mv2);
       }
     });
     addParser("ms", new DateValueSourceParser());
@@ -445,6 +464,44 @@ public abstract class ValueSourceParser implements NamedListInitializedPlugin {
     }
   }
 
+  private static MVResult getMultiValueSources(List<ValueSource> sources) {
+    MVResult mvr = new MVResult();
+    if (sources.size() % 2 != 0) {
+      throw new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.BAD_REQUEST, "Illegal number of sources.  There must be an even number of sources");
+    }
+    if (sources.size() == 2) {
+
+      //check to see if these are MultiValueSource
+      boolean s1MV = sources.get(0) instanceof MultiValueSource;
+      boolean s2MV = sources.get(1) instanceof MultiValueSource;
+      if (s1MV && s2MV) {
+        mvr.mv1 = (MultiValueSource) sources.get(0);
+        mvr.mv2 = (MultiValueSource) sources.get(1);
+      } else if (s1MV ||
+              s2MV) {
+        //if one is a MultiValueSource, than the other one needs to be too.
+        throw new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.BAD_REQUEST, "Illegal number of sources.  There must be an even number of sources");
+      } else {
+        mvr.mv1 = new ToMultiValueSource(Collections.singletonList(sources.get(0)));
+        mvr.mv2 = new ToMultiValueSource(Collections.singletonList(sources.get(1)));
+      }
+    } else {
+      int dim = sources.size() / 2;
+      List<ValueSource> sources1 = new ArrayList<ValueSource>(dim);
+      List<ValueSource> sources2 = new ArrayList<ValueSource>(dim);
+      //Get dim value sources for the first vector
+      splitSources(dim, sources, sources1, sources2);
+      mvr.mv1 = new ToMultiValueSource(sources1);
+      mvr.mv2 = new ToMultiValueSource(sources2);
+    }
+
+    return mvr;
+  }
+
+  private static class MVResult {
+    MultiValueSource mv1;
+    MultiValueSource mv2;
+  }
 }
 
 
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/function/DocValues.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/function/DocValues.java
index a005e4caa93..92e3ac6fd79 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/function/DocValues.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/function/DocValues.java
@@ -48,6 +48,15 @@ public abstract class DocValues {
   public String strVal(int doc) { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
   public abstract String toString(int doc);
 
+  //For Functions that can work with multiple values from the same document.  This does not apply to all functions
+  public void byteVal(int doc, byte [] vals) { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
+  public void shortVal(int doc, short [] vals) { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
+
+  public void floatVal(int doc, float [] vals) { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
+  public void intVal(int doc, int [] vals) { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
+  public void longVal(int doc, long [] vals) { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
+  public void doubleVal(int doc, double [] vals) { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
+  public void strVal(int doc, String [] vals) { throw new UnsupportedOperationException(); }
 
   public Explanation explain(int doc) {
     return new Explanation(floatVal(doc), toString(doc));
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/function/distance/DistanceUtils.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/function/distance/DistanceUtils.java
index 7fa858319be..e1c12efa27b 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/function/distance/DistanceUtils.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/function/distance/DistanceUtils.java
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 package org.apache.solr.search.function.distance;
+
+import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
 /**
  * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
  * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
@@ -50,5 +52,44 @@ public class DistanceUtils {
     return result;
   }
 
-
+  /**
+   * Given a string containing <i>dimension</i> values encoded in it, separated by commas, return a String array of length <i>dimension</i>
+   * containing the values.
+   * @param out A preallocated array.  Must be size dimension.  If it is not it will be resized.
+   * @param externalVal The value to parse
+   * @param dimension The expected number of values for the point
+   * @return An array of the values that make up the point (aka vector)
+   *
+   * @throws {@link SolrException} if the dimension specified does not match the number of values in the externalValue.
+   */
+  public static String[] parsePoint(String[] out, String externalVal, int dimension) {
+    //TODO: Should we support sparse vectors?
+    if (out==null || out.length != dimension) out=new String[dimension];
+    int idx = externalVal.indexOf(',');
+    int end = idx;
+    int start = 0;
+    int i = 0;
+    if (idx == -1 && dimension == 1 && externalVal.length() > 0){//we have a single point, dimension better be 1
+      out[0] = externalVal.trim();
+      i = 1;
+    }
+    else if (idx > 0) {//if it is zero, that is an error
+      //Parse out a comma separated list of point values, as in: 73.5,89.2,7773.4
+      for (; i < dimension; i++){
+        while (start<end && externalVal.charAt(start)==' ') start++;
+        while (end>start && externalVal.charAt(end-1)==' ') end--;
+        out[i] = externalVal.substring(start, end);
+        start = idx+1;
+        end = externalVal.indexOf(',', start);
+        if (end == -1){
+          end = externalVal.length();
+        }
+      }
+    } 
+    if (i != dimension){
+      throw new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.BAD_REQUEST, "incompatible dimension (" + dimension +
+              ") and values (" + externalVal + ").  Only " + i + " values specified");
+    }
+    return out;
+  }
 }
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/function/distance/HaversineFunction.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/function/distance/HaversineFunction.java
index 63a1f26f761..cad5d7e4647 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/function/distance/HaversineFunction.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/function/distance/HaversineFunction.java
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ package org.apache.solr.search.function.distance;
 
 import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher;
+import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
+import org.apache.solr.search.MultiValueSource;
 import org.apache.solr.search.function.DocValues;
 import org.apache.solr.search.function.ValueSource;
 
@@ -29,28 +31,31 @@ import java.util.Map;
  * Calculate the Haversine formula (distance) between any two points on a sphere
  * Takes in four value sources: (latA, lonA); (latB, lonB).
  * <p/>
- * Assumes the value sources are in radians
+ * Assumes the value sources are in radians unless
  * <p/>
  * See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-circle_distance and
  * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haversine_formula for the actual formula and
  * also http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html
- *
- * @see org.apache.solr.search.function.RadianFunction
  */
 public class HaversineFunction extends ValueSource {
 
-  private ValueSource x1;
-  private ValueSource y1;
-  private ValueSource x2;
-  private ValueSource y2;
+  private MultiValueSource p1;
+  private MultiValueSource p2;
+  private boolean convertToRadians = false;
   private double radius;
 
-  public HaversineFunction(ValueSource x1, ValueSource y1, ValueSource x2, ValueSource y2, double radius) {
-    this.x1 = x1;
-    this.y1 = y1;
-    this.x2 = x2;
-    this.y2 = y2;
+  public HaversineFunction(MultiValueSource p1, MultiValueSource p2, double radius) {
+    this(p1, p2, radius, false);
+  }
+
+  public HaversineFunction(MultiValueSource p1, MultiValueSource p2, double radius, boolean convertToRads){
+    this.p1 = p1;
+    this.p2 = p2;
+    if (p1.dimension() != 2 || p2.dimension() != 2) {
+      throw new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.BAD_REQUEST, "Illegal dimension for value sources");
+    }
     this.radius = radius;
+    this.convertToRadians = convertToRads;
   }
 
   protected String name() {
@@ -59,28 +64,40 @@ public class HaversineFunction extends ValueSource {
 
   /**
    * @param doc  The doc to score
-   * @param x1DV
-   * @param y1DV
-   * @param x2DV
-   * @param y2DV
+   * @param p1DV
+   * @param p2DV
    * @return The haversine distance formula
    */
-  protected double distance(int doc, DocValues x1DV, DocValues y1DV, DocValues x2DV, DocValues y2DV) {
-    double x1 = x1DV.doubleVal(doc); //in radians
-    double y1 = y1DV.doubleVal(doc);
-    double x2 = x2DV.doubleVal(doc);
-    double y2 = y2DV.doubleVal(doc);
+  protected double distance(int doc, DocValues p1DV, DocValues p2DV) {
 
+    double[] p1D = new double[2];
+    double[] p2D = new double[2];
+    p1DV.doubleVal(doc, p1D);
+    p2DV.doubleVal(doc, p2D);
+    double x1;
+    double y1;
+    double x2;
+    double y2;
+    if (convertToRadians) {
+      x1 = p1D[0] * DistanceUtils.DEGREES_TO_RADIANS;
+      y1 = p1D[1] * DistanceUtils.DEGREES_TO_RADIANS;
+      x2 = p2D[0] * DistanceUtils.DEGREES_TO_RADIANS;
+      y2 = p2D[1] * DistanceUtils.DEGREES_TO_RADIANS;
+    } else {
+      x1 = p1D[0];
+      y1 = p1D[1];
+      x2 = p2D[0];
+      y2 = p2D[1];
+    }
     return DistanceUtils.haversine(x1, y1, x2, y2, radius);
   }
 
 
   @Override
   public DocValues getValues(Map context, IndexReader reader) throws IOException {
-    final DocValues x1DV = x1.getValues(context, reader);
-    final DocValues y1DV = y1.getValues(context, reader);
-    final DocValues x2DV = x2.getValues(context, reader);
-    final DocValues y2DV = y2.getValues(context, reader);
+    final DocValues vals1 = p1.getValues(context, reader);
+
+    final DocValues vals2 = p2.getValues(context, reader);
     return new DocValues() {
       public float floatVal(int doc) {
         return (float) doubleVal(doc);
@@ -95,7 +112,7 @@ public class HaversineFunction extends ValueSource {
       }
 
       public double doubleVal(int doc) {
-        return (double) distance(doc, x1DV, y1DV, x2DV, y2DV);
+        return (double) distance(doc, vals1, vals2);
       }
 
       public String strVal(int doc) {
@@ -106,8 +123,7 @@ public class HaversineFunction extends ValueSource {
       public String toString(int doc) {
         StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
         sb.append(name()).append('(');
-        sb.append(x1DV.toString(doc)).append(',').append(y1DV.toString(doc)).append(',')
-                .append(x2DV.toString(doc)).append(',').append(y2DV.toString(doc));
+        sb.append(vals1.toString(doc)).append(',').append(vals2.toString(doc));
         sb.append(')');
         return sb.toString();
       }
@@ -116,10 +132,9 @@ public class HaversineFunction extends ValueSource {
 
   @Override
   public void createWeight(Map context, Searcher searcher) throws IOException {
-    x1.createWeight(context, searcher);
-    x2.createWeight(context, searcher);
-    y1.createWeight(context, searcher);
-    y2.createWeight(context, searcher);
+    p1.createWeight(context, searcher);
+    p2.createWeight(context, searcher);
+
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -127,20 +142,16 @@ public class HaversineFunction extends ValueSource {
     if (this.getClass() != o.getClass()) return false;
     HaversineFunction other = (HaversineFunction) o;
     return this.name().equals(other.name())
-            && x1.equals(other.x1) &&
-            y1.equals(other.y1) &&
-            x2.equals(other.x2) &&
-            y2.equals(other.y2) && radius == other.radius;
+            && p1.equals(other.p1) &&
+            p2.equals(other.p2) && radius == other.radius;
   }
 
   @Override
   public int hashCode() {
     int result;
     long temp;
-    result = x1.hashCode();
-    result = 31 * result + y1.hashCode();
-    result = 31 * result + x2.hashCode();
-    result = 31 * result + y2.hashCode();
+    result = p1.hashCode();
+    result = 31 * result + p2.hashCode();
     result = 31 * result + name().hashCode();
     temp = Double.doubleToRawLongBits(radius);
     result = 31 * result + (int) (temp ^ (temp >>> 32));
@@ -150,7 +161,7 @@ public class HaversineFunction extends ValueSource {
   public String description() {
     StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
     sb.append(name()).append('(');
-    sb.append(x1).append(',').append(y1).append(',').append(x2).append(',').append(y2);
+    sb.append(p1).append(',').append(p2);
     sb.append(')');
     return sb.toString();
   }
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/function/distance/SquaredEuclideanFunction.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/function/distance/SquaredEuclideanFunction.java
index 17932a8114c..94338597bbd 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/function/distance/SquaredEuclideanFunction.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/function/distance/SquaredEuclideanFunction.java
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ package org.apache.solr.search.function.distance;
 
 import org.apache.solr.search.function.DocValues;
 import org.apache.solr.search.function.ValueSource;
+import org.apache.solr.search.MultiValueSource;
 
 import java.util.List;
 
@@ -30,8 +31,8 @@ import java.util.List;
 public class SquaredEuclideanFunction extends VectorDistanceFunction {
   protected String name = "sqedist";
 
-  public SquaredEuclideanFunction(List<ValueSource> sources1, List<ValueSource> sources2) {
-    super(-1, sources1, sources2);//overriding distance, so power doesn't matter here
+  public SquaredEuclideanFunction(MultiValueSource source1, MultiValueSource source2) {
+    super(-1, source1, source2);//overriding distance, so power doesn't matter here
   }
 
 
@@ -43,11 +44,16 @@ public class SquaredEuclideanFunction extends VectorDistanceFunction {
   /**
    * @param doc The doc to score
    */
-  protected double distance(int doc, DocValues[] docValues1, DocValues[] docValues2) {
+  protected double distance(int doc, DocValues dv1, DocValues dv2) {
     double result = 0;
-    for (int i = 0; i < docValues1.length; i++) {
-      result += Math.pow(docValues1[i].doubleVal(doc) - docValues2[i].doubleVal(doc), 2);
-    }
+    double [] vals1 = new double[source1.dimension()];
+    double [] vals2 = new double[source1.dimension()];
+    dv1.doubleVal(doc, vals1);
+    dv2.doubleVal(doc, vals2);
+    for (int i = 0; i < vals1.length; i++) {
+        double v = vals1[i] - vals2[i];
+        result += v * v;
+      }
     return result;
   }
 
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/function/distance/VectorDistanceFunction.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/function/distance/VectorDistanceFunction.java
index 426d3b7b7ed..268f7476b56 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/function/distance/VectorDistanceFunction.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/function/distance/VectorDistanceFunction.java
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ import org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher;
 import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
 import org.apache.solr.search.function.DocValues;
 import org.apache.solr.search.function.ValueSource;
+import org.apache.solr.search.MultiValueSource;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 
 
@@ -41,18 +41,18 @@ import java.util.Map;
  * @see SquaredEuclideanFunction for the special case
  */
 public class VectorDistanceFunction extends ValueSource {
-  protected List<ValueSource> sources1, sources2;
+  protected MultiValueSource source1, source2;
   protected float power;
   protected float oneOverPower;
 
-  public VectorDistanceFunction(float power, List<ValueSource> sources1, List<ValueSource> sources2) {
-    this.power = power;
-    this.oneOverPower = 1 / power;
-    this.sources1 = sources1;
-    this.sources2 = sources2;
-    if ((sources1.size() != sources2.size())) {
+  public VectorDistanceFunction(float power, MultiValueSource source1, MultiValueSource source2) {
+    if ((source1.dimension() != source2.dimension())) {
       throw new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.BAD_REQUEST, "Illegal number of sources");
     }
+    this.power = power;
+    this.oneOverPower = 1 / power;
+    this.source1 = source1;
+    this.source2 = source2;
   }
 
   protected String name() {
@@ -63,37 +63,39 @@ public class VectorDistanceFunction extends ValueSource {
    * Calculate the distance
    *
    * @param doc        The current doc
-   * @param docValues1 The values from the first set of value sources
-   * @param docValues2 The values from the second set of value sources
+   * @param dv1 The values from the first MultiValueSource
+   * @param dv2 The values from the second MultiValueSource
    * @return The distance
    */
-  protected double distance(int doc, DocValues[] docValues1, DocValues[] docValues2) {
+  protected double distance(int doc, DocValues dv1, DocValues dv2) {
     double result = 0;
     //Handle some special cases:
+    double [] vals1 = new double[source1.dimension()];
+    double [] vals2 = new double[source1.dimension()];
+    dv1.doubleVal(doc, vals1);
+    dv2.doubleVal(doc, vals2);
     if (power == 0) {
-      for (int i = 0; i < docValues1.length; i++) {
-        //sparseness measure
-        result += docValues1[i].doubleVal(doc) - docValues2[i].doubleVal(doc) == 0 ? 0 : 1;
+      for (int i = 0; i < vals1.length; i++) {
+        result += vals1[i] - vals2[i] == 0 ? 0 :1;
       }
+
     } else if (power == 1.0) {
-      for (int i = 0; i < docValues1.length; i++) {
-        result += docValues1[i].doubleVal(doc) - docValues2[i].doubleVal(doc);
+      for (int i = 0; i < vals1.length; i++) {
+        result += vals1[i] - vals2[i];
       }
     } else if (power == 2.0) {
-      for (int i = 0; i < docValues1.length; i++) {
-        double v = docValues1[i].doubleVal(doc) - docValues2[i].doubleVal(doc);
+      for (int i = 0; i < vals1.length; i++) {
+        double v = vals1[i] - vals2[i];
         result += v * v;
       }
       result = Math.sqrt(result);
     } else if (power == Integer.MAX_VALUE || Double.isInfinite(power)) {//infininte norm?
-      for (int i = 0; i < docValues1.length; i++) {
-        //TODO: is this the correct infinite norm?
-        result = Math.max(docValues1[i].doubleVal(doc) - docValues2[i].doubleVal(doc), result);
+      for (int i = 0; i < vals1.length; i++) {
+        result = Math.max(vals1[i], vals2[i]);
       }
-
     } else {
-      for (int i = 0; i < docValues1.length; i++) {
-        result += Math.pow(docValues1[i].doubleVal(doc) - docValues2[i].doubleVal(doc), power);
+      for (int i = 0; i < vals1.length; i++) {
+        result += Math.pow(vals1[i] - vals2[i], power);
       }
       result = Math.pow(result, oneOverPower);
     }
@@ -103,19 +105,24 @@ public class VectorDistanceFunction extends ValueSource {
 
   @Override
   public DocValues getValues(Map context, IndexReader reader) throws IOException {
-    final DocValues[] valsArr1 = new DocValues[sources1.size()];
-    int i = 0;
-    for (ValueSource source : sources1) {
-      valsArr1[i++] = source.getValues(context, reader);
-    }
-    final DocValues[] valsArr2 = new DocValues[sources2.size()];
-    i = 0;
-    for (ValueSource source : sources2) {
-      valsArr2[i++] = source.getValues(context, reader);
-    }
+
+    final DocValues vals1 = source1.getValues(context, reader);
+
+    final DocValues vals2 = source2.getValues(context, reader);
+
 
 
     return new DocValues() {
+      @Override
+      public byte byteVal(int doc) {
+        return (byte) doubleVal(doc);
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public short shortVal(int doc) {
+        return (short)doubleVal(doc);
+      }
+
       public float floatVal(int doc) {
         return (float) doubleVal(doc);
       }
@@ -129,7 +136,7 @@ public class VectorDistanceFunction extends ValueSource {
       }
 
       public double doubleVal(int doc) {
-        return distance(doc, valsArr1, valsArr2);
+        return distance(doc, vals1, vals2);
       }
 
       public String strVal(int doc) {
@@ -141,18 +148,8 @@ public class VectorDistanceFunction extends ValueSource {
         StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
         sb.append(name()).append('(').append(power).append(',');
         boolean firstTime = true;
-        for (DocValues vals : valsArr1) {
-          if (firstTime) {
-            firstTime = false;
-          } else {
-            sb.append(',');
-          }
-          sb.append(vals.toString(doc));
-        }
-        for (DocValues vals : valsArr2) {
-          sb.append(',');//we will always have valsArr1, else there is an error
-          sb.append(vals.toString(doc));
-        }
+        sb.append(vals1.toString(doc)).append(',');
+        sb.append(vals2.toString(doc));
         sb.append(')');
         return sb.toString();
       }
@@ -161,12 +158,8 @@ public class VectorDistanceFunction extends ValueSource {
 
   @Override
   public void createWeight(Map context, Searcher searcher) throws IOException {
-    for (ValueSource source : sources1) {
-      source.createWeight(context, searcher);
-    }
-    for (ValueSource source : sources2) {
-      source.createWeight(context, searcher);
-    }
+    source1.createWeight(context, searcher);
+    source2.createWeight(context, searcher);
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -177,16 +170,16 @@ public class VectorDistanceFunction extends ValueSource {
     VectorDistanceFunction that = (VectorDistanceFunction) o;
 
     if (Float.compare(that.power, power) != 0) return false;
-    if (!sources1.equals(that.sources1)) return false;
-    if (!sources2.equals(that.sources2)) return false;
+    if (!source1.equals(that.source1)) return false;
+    if (!source2.equals(that.source2)) return false;
 
     return true;
   }
 
   @Override
   public int hashCode() {
-    int result = sources1.hashCode();
-    result = 31 * result + sources2.hashCode();
+    int result = source1.hashCode();
+    result = 31 * result + source2.hashCode();
     result = 31 * result + Float.floatToRawIntBits(power);
     return result;
   }
@@ -195,19 +188,8 @@ public class VectorDistanceFunction extends ValueSource {
   public String description() {
     StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
     sb.append(name()).append('(').append(power).append(',');
-    boolean firstTime = true;
-    for (ValueSource source : sources1) {
-      if (firstTime) {
-        firstTime = false;
-      } else {
-        sb.append(',');
-      }
-      sb.append(source);
-    }
-    for (ValueSource source : sources2) {
-      sb.append(',');//we will always have sources1, else there is an error
-      sb.append(source);
-    }
+    sb.append(source1).append(',');
+    sb.append(source2);
     sb.append(')');
     return sb.toString();
   }
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/DocumentBuilder.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/DocumentBuilder.java
index c8a188903a7..fbab2c05c48 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/DocumentBuilder.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/DocumentBuilder.java
@@ -57,19 +57,35 @@ public class DocumentBuilder {
     // we don't check for a null val ourselves because a solr.FieldType
     // might actually want to map it to something.  If createField()
     // returns null, then we don't store the field.
-    Field field = sfield.createField(val, boost);
-    if (field != null) {
-      if (!sfield.multiValued()) {
-        String oldValue = map.put(sfield.getName(), val);
-        if (oldValue != null) {
-          throw new SolrException( SolrException.ErrorCode.BAD_REQUEST,"ERROR: multiple values encountered for non multiValued field " + sfield.getName()
-                  + ": first='" + oldValue + "' second='" + val + "'");
+    if (sfield.isPolyField()) {
+      Fieldable[] fields = sfield.createFields(val, boost);
+      if (fields != null && fields.length > 0) {
+        if (!sfield.multiValued()) {
+          String oldValue = map.put(sfield.getName(), val);
+          if (oldValue != null) {
+            throw new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.BAD_REQUEST, "ERROR: multiple values encountered for non multiValued field " + sfield.getName()
+                    + ": first='" + oldValue + "' second='" + val + "'");
+          }
+        }
+        // Add each field
+        for (Fieldable field : fields) {
+          doc.add(field);
+        }
+      }
+    } else {
+      Field field = sfield.createField(val, boost);
+      if (field != null) {
+        if (!sfield.multiValued()) {
+          String oldValue = map.put(sfield.getName(), val);
+          if (oldValue != null) {
+            throw new SolrException( SolrException.ErrorCode.BAD_REQUEST,"ERROR: multiple values encountered for non multiValued field " + sfield.getName()
+                    + ": first='" + oldValue + "' second='" + val + "'");
+          }
         }
       }
-       
-      // field.setBoost(boost);
       doc.add(field);
     }
+
   }
 
   /**
@@ -147,7 +163,7 @@ public class DocumentBuilder {
     for (SchemaField field : schema.getRequiredFields()) {
       if (doc.getField(field.getName() ) == null) {
         if (field.getDefaultValue() != null) {
-          doc.add( field.createField( field.getDefaultValue(), 1.0f ) );
+          addField(doc, field, field.getDefaultValue(), 1.0f);
         } else {
           if (missingFields==null) {
             missingFields = new ArrayList<String>(1);
@@ -176,6 +192,19 @@ public class DocumentBuilder {
     Document ret = doc; doc=null;
     return ret;
   }
+
+
+  private static void addField(Document doc, SchemaField field, String val, float boost) {
+    if (field.isPolyField()) {
+      Fieldable[] farr = field.getType().createFields(field, val, boost);
+      for (Fieldable f : farr) {
+        if (f != null) doc.add(f); // null fields are not added
+      }
+    } else {
+      Field f = field.createField(val, boost);
+      if (f != null) doc.add(f);  // null fields are not added
+    }
+  }
   
 
   /**
@@ -230,7 +259,9 @@ public class DocumentBuilder {
           isBinaryField = true;
           BinaryField binaryField = (BinaryField) sfield.getType();
           Field f = binaryField.createField(sfield,v,boost);
-          if(f != null) out.add(f);
+          if(f != null){
+            out.add(f);
+          }
           used = true;
         } else {
           // TODO!!! HACK -- date conversion
@@ -243,10 +274,7 @@ public class DocumentBuilder {
 
           if (sfield != null) {
             used = true;
-            Field f = sfield.createField(val, boost);
-            if (f != null) { // null fields are not added
-              out.add(f);
-            }
+            addField(out, sfield, val, boost);
           }
         }
 
@@ -263,17 +291,21 @@ public class DocumentBuilder {
           }
 
           used = true;
-          Field f = null;
+          //Don't worry about poly fields here
+          Fieldable [] fields = null;
           if (isBinaryField) {
             if (destinationField.getType() instanceof BinaryField) {
               BinaryField binaryField = (BinaryField) destinationField.getType();
-              f = binaryField.createField(destinationField, v, boost);
+              //TODO: safe to assume that binary fields only create one?
+              fields = new Field[]{binaryField.createField(destinationField, v, boost)};
             }
           } else {
-            f = destinationField.createField(cf.getLimitedValue(val), boost);
+            fields = destinationField.createFields(cf.getLimitedValue(val), boost);
           }
-          if (f != null) { // null fields are not added
-            out.add(f);
+          if (fields != null) { // null fields are not added
+            for (Fieldable f : fields) {
+              out.add(f);
+            }
           }
         }
         
@@ -297,7 +329,7 @@ public class DocumentBuilder {
     for (SchemaField field : schema.getRequiredFields()) {
       if (out.getField(field.getName() ) == null) {
         if (field.getDefaultValue() != null) {
-          out.add( field.createField( field.getDefaultValue(), 1.0f ) );
+          addField(out, field, field.getDefaultValue(), 1.0f);
         } 
         else {
           String id = schema.printableUniqueKey( out );
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/util/AbstractSolrTestCase.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/util/AbstractSolrTestCase.java
index 5a9bda55113..6a78697ef5e 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/util/AbstractSolrTestCase.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/util/AbstractSolrTestCase.java
@@ -231,6 +231,17 @@ public abstract class AbstractSolrTestCase extends TestCase {
     }
   }
 
+  public void assertQEx(String message, SolrQueryRequest req, SolrException.ErrorCode code ) {
+    try {
+      h.query(req);
+      fail( message );
+    } catch (SolrException e) {
+      assertEquals( code.code, e.code() );
+    } catch (Exception e2) {
+      throw new RuntimeException("Exception during query", e2);
+    }
+  }
+
   
   /**
    * @see TestHarness#optimize
diff --git a/src/test/org/apache/solr/schema/PolyFieldTest.java b/src/test/org/apache/solr/schema/PolyFieldTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d50f9fbc1c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/org/apache/solr/schema/PolyFieldTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,196 @@
+package org.apache.solr.schema;
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import org.apache.lucene.document.Field;
+import org.apache.lucene.document.Fieldable;
+import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanClause;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanQuery;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.TopDocs;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
+import org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore;
+import org.apache.solr.util.AbstractSolrTestCase;
+import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Random;
+
+
+/**
+ * Test a whole slew of things related to PolyFields
+ */
+public class PolyFieldTest extends AbstractSolrTestCase {
+
+  @Override
+  public String getSchemaFile() {
+    return "schema.xml";
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getSolrConfigFile() {
+    return "solrconfig.xml";
+  }
+
+  public void testSchemaBasics() throws Exception {
+    IndexSchema schema = h.getCore().getSchema();
+
+
+    SchemaField home = schema.getField("home");
+    assertNotNull(home);
+    assertTrue(home.isPolyField());
+
+    SchemaField[] dynFields = schema.getDynamicFieldPrototypes();
+    boolean seen = false;
+    for (SchemaField dynField : dynFields) {
+      if (dynField.getName().equals("*" + FieldType.POLY_FIELD_SEPARATOR + "double")) {
+        seen = true;
+      }
+    }
+    assertTrue("Didn't find the expected dynamic field", seen);
+    FieldType homeFT = schema.getFieldType("home");
+    assertEquals(home.getType(), homeFT);
+    FieldType xy = schema.getFieldTypeByName("xy");
+    assertNotNull(xy);
+    assertTrue(xy instanceof PointType);
+    assertTrue(xy.isPolyField());
+    home = schema.getFieldOrNull("home_0" + FieldType.POLY_FIELD_SEPARATOR + "double");
+    assertNotNull(home);
+    home = schema.getField("home");
+    assertNotNull(home);
+    homeFT = schema.getPolyFieldType("home");
+    assertNotNull(homeFT);
+
+    home = schema.getField("homed");//sub field suffix
+    assertNotNull(home);
+    assertTrue(home.isPolyField());
+
+    try {
+      FieldType bad = schema.getPolyFieldType("foo");
+      assertTrue(false);
+    } catch (Exception e) {
+    }
+    try {
+      FieldType bad = schema.getPolyFieldTypeNoEx("foo");
+      assertNull(bad);
+    } catch (Exception e) {
+      assertTrue(false);
+    }
+  }
+
+  public void testPointFieldType() throws Exception {
+    SolrCore core = h.getCore();
+    IndexSchema schema = core.getSchema();
+    SchemaField home = schema.getField("home");
+    assertNotNull(home);
+    assertTrue("home is not a poly field", home.isPolyField());
+    FieldType tmp = home.getType();
+    assertTrue(tmp instanceof PointType);
+    PointType pt = (PointType) tmp;
+    assertEquals(pt.getDimension(), 2);
+    double[] xy = new double[]{35.0, -79.34};
+    String point = xy[0] + "," + xy[1];
+    Fieldable[] fields = home.createFields(point, 2);
+    assertEquals(fields.length, 3);//should be 3, we have a stored field
+    //first two fields contain the values, third is just stored and contains the original
+    for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
+      boolean hasValue = fields[1].tokenStreamValue() != null
+              || fields[1].getBinaryValue() != null
+              || fields[1].stringValue() != null;
+      assertTrue("Doesn't have a value: " + fields[1], hasValue);
+    }
+    /*assertTrue("first field " + fields[0].tokenStreamValue() +  " is not 35.0", pt.getSubType().toExternal(fields[0]).equals(String.valueOf(xy[0])));
+    assertTrue("second field is not -79.34", pt.getSubType().toExternal(fields[1]).equals(String.valueOf(xy[1])));
+    assertTrue("third field is not '35.0,-79.34'", pt.getSubType().toExternal(fields[2]).equals(point));*/
+
+
+    home = schema.getField("home_ns");
+    assertNotNull(home);
+    fields = home.createFields(point, 2);
+    assertEquals(fields.length, 2);//should be 2, since we aren't storing
+
+    home = schema.getField("home_ns");
+    assertNotNull(home);
+    try {
+      fields = home.createFields("35.0,foo", 2);
+      assertTrue(false);
+    } catch (Exception e) {
+      //
+    }
+  }
+
+  public void testSearching() throws Exception {
+    for (int i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
+      assertU(adoc("id", "" + i, "home", i + "," + (i * 100), "homed", (i * 1000) + "," + (i * 10000)));
+    }
+    assertU(commit());
+    IndexReader reader = h.getCore().getSearcher().get().getReader();
+    /*for (int i = 0; i < 50; i++){
+      Document doc = reader.document(i);
+      System.out.println("Doc: " + doc.get("homed_0___double"));
+    }*/
+    assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q", "*:*"), "//*[@numFound='50']");
+    assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q", "home:1,100"),
+            "//*[@numFound='1']",
+            "//str[@name='home'][.='1,100']");
+    assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q", "homed:1000,10000"),
+            "//*[@numFound='1']",
+            "//str[@name='homed'][.='1000,10000']");
+    assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q",
+            "{!func}sqedist(home, toMultiVS(0, 0))"),
+            "\"//*[@numFound='50']\"");
+    assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q",
+            "{!func}dist(2, home, toMultiVS(0, 0))"),
+            "\"//*[@numFound='50']\"");
+
+    assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q",
+            "home:[10,10000 TO 30,30000]"),
+            "\"//*[@numFound='3']\"");
+    assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q",
+            "homed:[1,1000 TO 2000,35000]"),
+            "\"//*[@numFound='2']\"");
+    //bad
+    
+    assertQEx("Query should throw an exception due to incorrect dimensions", req("fl", "*,score", "q",
+            "homed:[1 TO 2000]"), SolrException.ErrorCode.BAD_REQUEST);
+  }
+
+  
+
+  public void testSearchDetails() throws Exception {
+    SolrCore core = h.getCore();
+    IndexSchema schema = core.getSchema();
+    double[] xy = new double[]{35.0, -79.34};
+    String point = xy[0] + "," + xy[1];
+    //How about some queries?
+    //don't need a parser for this path currently.  This may change
+    assertU(adoc("id", "0", "home_ns", point));
+    assertU(commit());
+    SchemaField home = schema.getField("home_ns");
+    PointType pt = (PointType) home.getType();
+    assertEquals(pt.getDimension(), 2);
+    Query q = pt.getFieldQuery(null, home, point);
+    assertNotNull(q);
+    assertTrue(q instanceof BooleanQuery);
+    //should have two clauses, one for 35.0 and the other for -79.34
+    BooleanQuery bq = (BooleanQuery) q;
+    BooleanClause[] clauses = bq.getClauses();
+    assertEquals(clauses.length, 2);
+
+  }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/test/org/apache/solr/search/function/distance/DistanceFunctionTest.java b/src/test/org/apache/solr/search/function/distance/DistanceFunctionTest.java
index 47813d20668..cdc906e95ad 100644
--- a/src/test/org/apache/solr/search/function/distance/DistanceFunctionTest.java
+++ b/src/test/org/apache/solr/search/function/distance/DistanceFunctionTest.java
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ package org.apache.solr.search.function.distance;
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
+import org.apache.lucene.spatial.geohash.GeoHashUtils;
 import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
 import org.apache.solr.util.AbstractSolrTestCase;
-import org.apache.lucene.spatial.geohash.GeoHashUtils;
 
 
 /**
@@ -44,20 +44,21 @@ public class DistanceFunctionTest extends AbstractSolrTestCase {
     assertU(adoc("id", "2", "x_td", "0", "y_td", String.valueOf(Math.PI / 2), "gh_s", GeoHashUtils.encode(32.7693246, -78.9289094)));
     assertU(adoc("id", "3", "x_td", String.valueOf(Math.PI / 2), "y_td", String.valueOf(Math.PI / 2), "gh_s", GeoHashUtils.encode(32.7693246, -80.9289094)));
     assertU(adoc("id", "4", "x_td", String.valueOf(Math.PI / 4), "y_td", String.valueOf(Math.PI / 4), "gh_s", GeoHashUtils.encode(32.7693246, -81.9289094)));
+    assertU(adoc("id", "5", "x_td", "45.0", "y_td", "45.0",
+            "gh_s", GeoHashUtils.encode(32.7693246, -81.9289094)));
     assertU(commit());
     //Get the haversine distance between the point 0,0 and the docs above assuming a radius of 1
-    assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q", "{!func}hsin(x_td, y_td, 0, 0, 1)", "fq", "id:1"), "//float[@name='score']='0.0'");
-    assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q", "{!func}hsin(x_td, y_td, 0, 0, 1)", "fq", "id:2"), "//float[@name='score']='" + (float) (Math.PI / 2) + "'");
-    assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q", "{!func}hsin(x_td, y_td, 0, 0, 1)", "fq", "id:3"), "//float[@name='score']='" + (float) (Math.PI / 2) + "'");
-    assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q", "{!func}hsin(x_td, y_td, 0, 0, 1)", "fq", "id:4"), "//float[@name='score']='1.0471976'");
+    assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q", "{!func}hsin(1, x_td, y_td, 0, 0)", "fq", "id:1"), "//float[@name='score']='0.0'");
+    assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q", "{!func}hsin(1, x_td, y_td, 0, 0)", "fq", "id:2"), "//float[@name='score']='" + (float) (Math.PI / 2) + "'");
+    assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q", "{!func}hsin(1, x_td, y_td, 0, 0)", "fq", "id:3"), "//float[@name='score']='" + (float) (Math.PI / 2) + "'");
+    assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q", "{!func}hsin(1, x_td, y_td, 0, 0)", "fq", "id:4"), "//float[@name='score']='1.0471976'");
+    assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q", "{!func}hsin(1, x_td, y_td, 0, 0, true)", "fq", "id:5"), "//float[@name='score']='1.0471976'");
 
     //Geo Hash Haversine
     //Can verify here: http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html, but they use a slightly different radius for the earth, so just be close
-    assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q", "{!func}ghhsin(gh_s, \"" + GeoHashUtils.encode(32, -79) +
-            "\"," + Constants.EARTH_RADIUS_KM +
-            ")", "fq", "id:1"), "//float[@name='score']='122.30894'");
-    assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q", "{!func}ghhsin(gh_s, geohash(32, -79)," + Constants.EARTH_RADIUS_KM +
-            ")", "fq", "id:1"), "//float[@name='score']='122.30894'");
+    assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q", "{!func}ghhsin(" + Constants.EARTH_RADIUS_KM + ", gh_s, \"" + GeoHashUtils.encode(32, -79) +
+            "\",)", "fq", "id:1"), "//float[@name='score']='122.30894'");
+    assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q", "{!func}ghhsin(" + Constants.EARTH_RADIUS_KM + ", gh_s, geohash(32, -79))", "fq", "id:1"), "//float[@name='score']='122.30894'");
   }
 
   public void testVector() throws Exception {
@@ -66,6 +67,8 @@ public class DistanceFunctionTest extends AbstractSolrTestCase {
     assertU(adoc("id", "3", "x_td", "1", "y_td", "1", "z_td", "1", "w_td", "1"));
     assertU(adoc("id", "4", "x_td", "1", "y_td", "0", "z_td", "0", "w_td", "0"));
     assertU(adoc("id", "5", "x_td", "2.3", "y_td", "5.5", "z_td", "7.9", "w_td", "-2.4"));
+    assertU(adoc("id", "6", "point", "1.0,0.0"));
+    assertU(adoc("id", "7", "point", "5.5,10.9"));
     assertU(commit());
     //two dimensions, notice how we only pass in 4 value sources
     assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q", "{!func}sqedist(x_td, y_td, 0, 0)", "fq", "id:1"), "//float[@name='score']='0.0'");
@@ -111,6 +114,15 @@ public class DistanceFunctionTest extends AbstractSolrTestCase {
     assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q", "{!func}dist(1, x_td, y_td, 0, 0)", "fq", "id:3"), "//float[@name='score']='" + (float) 2.0 + "'");
     assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q", "{!func}dist(1, x_td, y_td, 0, 0)", "fq", "id:4"), "//float[@name='score']='1.0'");
     assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q", "{!func}dist(1, x_td, y_td, 0, 0)", "fq", "id:5"), "//float[@name='score']='" + (float) (2.3 + 5.5) + "'");
+
+
+    //Do point tests:
+    assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q", "{!func}dist(1, toMultiVS(x_td, y_td), toMultiVS(0, 0))", "fq", "id:5"),
+            "//float[@name='score']='" + (float) (2.3 + 5.5) + "'");
+
+    assertQ(req("fl", "*,score", "q", "{!func}dist(1, point, toMultiVS(0, 0))", "fq", "id:6"),
+            "//float[@name='score']='" + 0.0f + "'");
+
   }
 
 }
diff --git a/src/test/org/apache/solr/update/DocumentBuilderTest.java b/src/test/org/apache/solr/update/DocumentBuilderTest.java
index 45f14a3485b..84d8bd547c8 100644
--- a/src/test/org/apache/solr/update/DocumentBuilderTest.java
+++ b/src/test/org/apache/solr/update/DocumentBuilderTest.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
 import org.apache.solr.common.SolrInputDocument;
 import org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore;
 import org.apache.solr.util.AbstractSolrTestCase;
+import org.apache.solr.schema.FieldType;
 
 /**
  * 
@@ -59,4 +60,17 @@ public class DocumentBuilderTest extends AbstractSolrTestCase {
     Document out = DocumentBuilder.toDocument( doc, core.getSchema() );
     assertNull( out.get( "name" ) );
   }
+
+  public void testMultiField() throws Exception {
+    SolrCore core = h.getCore();
+
+    // make sure a null value is not indexed
+    SolrInputDocument doc = new SolrInputDocument();
+    doc.addField( "home", "2.2,3.3", 1.0f );
+    Document out = DocumentBuilder.toDocument( doc, core.getSchema() );
+    assertNotNull( out.get( "home" ) );//contains the stored value and term vector, if there is one
+    assertNotNull( out.getField( "home_0" + FieldType.POLY_FIELD_SEPARATOR + "double" ) );
+    assertNotNull( out.getField( "home_1" + FieldType.POLY_FIELD_SEPARATOR + "double" ) );
+  }
+
 }
diff --git a/src/test/test-files/solr/conf/schema.xml b/src/test/test-files/solr/conf/schema.xml
index 8e0525e53d5..e3524227c22 100644
--- a/src/test/test-files/solr/conf/schema.xml
+++ b/src/test/test-files/solr/conf/schema.xml
@@ -367,6 +367,12 @@
   </fieldtype>
 
   <fieldType name="uuid" class="solr.UUIDField" />
+    
+    <!-- Try out some point types -->
+  <fieldType name="xy" class="solr.PointType" dimension="2" subFieldType="double"/>
+  <fieldType name="tenD" class="solr.PointType" dimension="10" subFieldType="double"/>
+    <!-- Use the sub field suffix -->
+  <fieldType name="xyd" class="solr.PointType" dimension="2" subFieldSuffix="*_d"/>
   
  </types>
 
@@ -392,6 +398,15 @@
    <field name="shouldbestored" type="unstored" stored="true"/>
    <field name="shouldbeunindexed" type="unstored" indexed="false" stored="true"/>
 
+   <!-- Test points -->
+      <!-- Test points -->
+   <field name="home" type="xy" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="false"/>
+   <field name="homed" type="xyd" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="false"/>
+   <field name="home_ns" type="xy" indexed="true" stored="false" multiValued="false"/>
+   <field name="work" type="xy" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="false"/>
+
+   <field name="point10" type="tenD" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="false"/>
+
 
    <!-- test different combinations of indexed and stored -->
    <field name="bind" type="boolean" indexed="true" stored="false"/>
diff --git a/src/test/test-files/solr/conf/schema11.xml b/src/test/test-files/solr/conf/schema11.xml
index 1a1cc78268c..e9514981976 100755
--- a/src/test/test-files/solr/conf/schema11.xml
+++ b/src/test/test-files/solr/conf/schema11.xml
@@ -251,6 +251,10 @@
     <fieldType name="tdoubles" class="solr.TrieDoubleField" omitNorms="true" positionIncrementGap="0" precisionStep="0" multiValued="true" />
     <fieldType name="tdates" class="solr.TrieDateField" omitNorms="true" positionIncrementGap="0" precisionStep="0" multiValued="true" />
 
+    <!-- Poly field -->
+    <fieldType name="xy" class="solr.PointType" dimension="2" subFieldType="double"/>
+    <fieldType name="xyd" class="solr.PointType" dimension="2" subFieldSuffix="*_d"/>
+
  </types>
 
 
@@ -275,7 +279,11 @@
 
    <!-- for testing, a type that does a transform to see if it's correctly done everywhere -->
    <field name="id" type="sfloat" indexed="true" stored="true" required="true" /> 
-   <field name="text" type="text" indexed="true" stored="false" /> 
+   <field name="text" type="text" indexed="true" stored="false" />
+
+   <!-- Test a point field for distances -->
+   <field name="point" type="xy" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="false"/>
+   <field name="pointD" type="xyd" indexed="true" stored="true" multiValued="false"/>
 
    <!-- Dynamic field definitions.  If a field name is not found, dynamicFields
         will be used if the name matches any of the patterns.