On 04/11/2011 01:25 PM, entdeveloper wrote: > Thanks Otis. And by your answer, does this mean that individual clauses in a > boolean query are executed sequentially? not in parallel?
Clauses are executed in parallel. The execution of a conjunction is able to efficiently skip occurrences in ranges of documents that do not contain all clauses, while, for a disjunction, every occurrence of every clause must be considered. Doug
