using list of items to be excluded while querying

[prabin meitei]

Hi,     I have a large index of documents of fields "id" "name" and few
other.
while querying i do want to exclude a list of ids i passed in.

for this what i use is
Query query = new BooleanQuery();

 for (int i=0; i<list.size(); i++){

                term = new Term("id", list.get(i).toString());

                termQuery = new TermQuery(term);

                query.add(termQuery, Occur.MUST_NOT);

            }


the problem with this is that when my list size grows larger (more than
1024) it gives tooManyBooleanCauses exception.


i tried by changing the query to

query.add(new QueryParser("id", new StandardAnalyzer()).parse(list.toString()),
Occur.MUST_NOT);


this also gives the same problem when list size is big.


I do not want to increase the max clause limit ('coz of performance issues)


Is there any simple solution to such problem?


Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.


Prabin