Maybe you can perform the OR clause with the MultiSearcher and use a custom made QueryFilter to filter the results that you don't need out of the first index.
~Andrew On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Andrei Alecu <and...@tachyon-labs.com>wrote: > Right, I was doing two separate searches before, but I was hoping there was > a better way. > > Thanks. > > > Digy wrote: > >> Either you have to reindex "Index A" and add a "visible" field with values >> both 0 and 1, or make two seperate searches. >> >> DIGY >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Andrei Alecu [mailto:and...@tachyon-labs.com] Sent: Wednesday, July >> 29, 2009 9:54 PM >> To: lucene-net-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: Is this query possible? >> >> Hello all, >> >> I have a MultiSearcher searching two separate indexes. >> >> One of the indexes (index B) has some extra terms in its documents >> compared to the other (index A). >> >> Consider this scenario: >> >> Index A documents: >> field: fulltext >> >> Index B documents: >> field: fulltext >> field: visible >> >> I want for a query such as : >> >> fulltext:"car" AND visible:1 >> >> To return all the matching "car" results in Index A, thus ignoring the >> 'visibile' constraint if it's not defined for the document. How can I do >> that? Right now the results completely skip Index A because of no matching >> 'visible' field. >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >
