Re: Boolean query with 50,000 clauses! Possible? Scalable?

[André Warnier]

Edoardo Marcora wrote:
I am faced with the requirement for a boolean query composed of 50,000
clauses (all of them directed at the same field) all OR'ed together. 

By pure intellectual curiosity : can you provide some idea of the type 
of query, and the type of content of the field this is targeted at ?
I have this notion that with 50,000 queries directed at one field, there 
must be some smarter way of handling this than just OR-ing together the 
results.