Thanks Adrien! Yes I am aware of this "that EarlyTerminatingSortingCollector does not exactly do that since it works on a per-segment basis"
I use EarlyTerminatingSortingCollector for performance when docs hit are too much. 2018-06-04 19:09 GMT+08:00 Adrien Grand <jpou...@gmail.com>: > You are right that TopFieldCollector doesn't address some expert use-cases > that EarlyTerminatingSortingCollect used to address. If you need to do > something like this I think it's fine for you to fork > EarlyTerminatingSortingCollector. > > Do I get it right that you have two fields A and B and want the top 10 > documents sorted by A among the top 1M documents when sorting by B? If yes > then beware that EarlyTerminatingSortingCollector does not exactly do that > since it works on a per-segment basis, so you could get some hits in your > results that are not within the top 1M hits when sorting by B. >
