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Ferenczi Jim commented on LUCENE-7337:
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Wooo thanks [~mikemccand]

?I think getting proper distributed queries working is really out of
scope here: that would really require a distributed rewrite to work
correctly.?

Agreed. Returning 1 or 0 for the queryNorm would not solve the problem anyway 
and I think it's more important to make empty-clause boolean query behaves 
exactly the same as the MatchNoDocsQuery. 

> MultiTermQuery are sometimes rewritten into an empty boolean query
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-7337
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7337
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: core/search
>            Reporter: Ferenczi Jim
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: LUCENE-7337.patch
>
>
> MultiTermQuery are sometimes rewritten to an empty boolean query (depending 
> on the rewrite method), it can happen when no expansions are found on a fuzzy 
> query for instance.
> It can be problematic when the multi term query is boosted. 
> For instance consider the following query:
> `((title:bar~1)^100 text:bar)`
> This is a boolean query with two optional clauses. The first one is a fuzzy 
> query on the field title with a boost of 100. 
> If there is no expansion for "title:bar~1" the query is rewritten into:
> `(()^100 text:bar)`
> ... and when expansions are found:
> `((title:bars | title:bar)^100 text:bar)`
> The scoring of those two queries will differ because the normalization factor 
> and the norm for the first query will be equal to 1 (the boost is ignored 
> because the empty boolean query is not taken into account for the computation 
> of the normalization factor) whereas the second query will have a 
> normalization factor of 10,000 (100*100) and a norm equal to 0.01. 
> This kind of discrepancy can happen in a single index because the expansions 
> for the fuzzy query are done at the segment level. It can also happen when 
> multiple indices are requested (Solr/ElasticSearch case).
> A simple fix would be to replace the empty boolean query produced by the 
> multi term query with a MatchNoDocsQuery but I am not sure that it's the best 
> way to fix. WDYT ?
>  



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