The behavior of BooleanQuery#setMaxClauseCount

2008-10-23 Thread Andrew Zhang
Hi, As we know, wildcard query may take a lot of time, especially when there're lots of term matches. It seems there's no way to find a way to configure max count of matched terms. BooleanQuery#setMaxClauseCount API is close to the goal, but it throws TooManyClauseException when it exceeds the limi

Re: [VOTE] Relax backwards-compatibility policy for package-protected APIs

2008-10-23 Thread Michael Busch
Michael McCandless wrote: I think *not* having to maintain back compat of the package private APIs is very important to keeping our freedom (and sanity!) to continue to improve Lucene. This is similar to marking a new API as experimental and subject to suddenly change in the next release: it