See also relevant FAQ entry & Wiki page:

http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene/LuceneFAQ#head-06fafb5d19e786a50fb3dfb8821a6af9f37aa831
  http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene/LargeScaleDateRangeProcessing

"Steven Parkes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 17/10/2006 09:12:55:

> Lucene takes your date range, enumerates all the unique date/time values
> in your corpus within that range, and then executes that query. So the
> number of terms in your query is going to be equal to the number of
> unique date/time values in the range.
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> The most common way of handling this is to not index the dates to a
> higher precision than you need to support your query. If you're only
> going to query down to days (and not the time of day within a date),
> don't include the extra hours/minutes/seconds in the indexed field. You
> can always put the higher precision value in a stored but unindexed
> field if you want to retrieve it via the query results.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bushey, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 10:44 AM
> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses exception
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> Hi - Can someone explain the reason why I'm getting the TooManyClauses
> exception?  I have a general understanding of the issue based on my
> reading, but I don't understand the mechanics of the it.  Specifically
> how is my query being expanded to cause this problem?  How am I
> exceeding the default 1024 clauses?  My query looks like the following.
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> pyLabel:(test) OR pyDescription:(test) AND ( pxCreateDateTime:[20060401
> TO 20060901] )
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> The problem only happens when my date range exceeds ~2 months.  The date
> is indexed with more precision, but for my query purposes I only care
> about the date and not the time stamp portion.  What can I do to solve
> or mitigate this problem and be able to search a date range that spans
> at least a year? Is setMaxClauseCount() a predictable solution?  How
> would reducing the precision of my date during indexing help?
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> Thanks
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> John
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