Joe R wrote on 05/30/2006 12:37 PM:
> If I understand correctly, I can still do the
> combine() once on the JMS MultiSearcher if the query doesn't contain any
> wildcard or range terms.
>
>
In general, you cannot rely on this. Any app may define any subtype of
Query and give it a rewrite() met
Oh, yeah -- wildcard and range queries. That's an even better reason for this
method than the one I guessed (and the hunt for an optimization that nobody has
thought of continues on...) If I understand correctly, I can still do the
combine() once on the JMS MultiSearcher if the query doesn't con
If I understand what you are saying, unfortunately it will not work.
The issue is that rewrite() needs to access the index. E.g., a* or [a
TO d] rewrite to disjunctions of all terms that exist in the index that
match, respectively, the prefix or range. To determine this set of
terms it is necess
