Thx. so, just to clarify, in the example I gave below... Lucene will search for documents matching on Name and find doc 1 and doc 2. Then it will search age and find docs 1, 2 and then break. It will not go on to seek 5 and 10...?
-----Original Message----- From: Michael McCandless <luc...@mikemccandless.com> Reply-To: java-user@lucene.apache.org To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Does Lucene fail fast on boolean queries? Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 10:29:57 -0400 Yes. As soon as Lucene sees that the Name docID iteration has ended, the search will break. Mike On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Joel Halbert <j...@su3analytics.com> wrote: > Hi, > > When Lucene performs a Boolean query, say: > > Field Name = Male > AND > Field Age = 30 > > assuming the resultant docs for each portion of the query were: > > Matching docs for: Name = 1,2 > Matching docs for: Age = 1,2,5,10 > > Will Lucene stop searching for documents matching the Age term once it > has found documents 1 and 2 ? > i.e. since 5 and 10 will not be used will it stop searching at document > number 2 ? > > Thx, > Joel > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
