I understand the concept of an inverted index. Terms are mapped the the docs containing them. But when the query contains a wildcard (*, ?) we cannot simply use an index entry.
How does wildcard searches work under the hood? Is there some other index helping Lucene to find all the relevant terms, and then the inverted index is used with all of them? I'm hoping to get a better understanding of this issue to be able to reason poor performance of the application I work on Thanks, Alex. -- Sent from: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Lucene-General-f642108.html
