Hi Mark, Thanks! That clears things up quite a bit. Are there plans to incorporate a solr 'wildcard index' to contain infix terms, or alternately contain a backwards index to get around this term? I'll plan on using the workaround in the meantime.
-Harish markrmiller wrote: > > smock wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm curious about the performance issues around leading wildcard search - >> is >> there any way to get around it? Could someone explain to me the nature >> of >> the issue? >> >> Thanks! >> Harish >> > A lucene/solr index is much like the index in the back of a book. > Imagine I ask you to look up luce* in the index of a book - you would > first jump to l, then lu, etc until you found the entries for terms that > started with luce. Now imagine I ask you to look up terms *ene. You > can't skip to any section now. The matching terms could start with any > letter, and any letter can come next and so on. You have to scan the > whole index right? > > Work arounds? Imagine making a second index (or adding another field) > with all of the terms spelled backwards. > > - Mark > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Leading-Wildcard-Search-tp21799369p21799691.html Sent from the Solr - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
