On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Uwe Schindler<[email protected]> wrote: > NumericRangeQuery is not only geographical search... So it would also cover > other directions: Things I can do with Lucene additionally to full text > search, that could be done before only with RDBMS and/or PostGIS...: Do full > text search with scoring and so on in addition to filter my products by > price and availability in shops at specific geographic regions; newspaper > articles about Arnold and national bankruptcy *g* from a datetime range > sorted by article size,... (we know all possibilities we have now by > numeric/geo search).
Let's not over-state the case: people have been doing all that for years with Lucene. There were many methods to deal with numeric encoding and slow range queries. The Trie* stuff has made it both easier and faster out-of-the-box - a good thing. -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com
