> > About the merging; when I look at Mikes code:
> > Except the global IDF and the bug in MTQ, the merging code is identical to
> what MultiSearcher did before. I would in trunk even recommend to
> undelete FieldDocSortedHitQueue and you have everything you need to
> merge two TopDocs instances.
> >
> 
> again, where is the bug in MTQ?

Sorry a bug in my mail, I meant MultiSearcher, man :(

> 'stuff being different without special intervention' in the distributed versus
> single node case isn't a bug, thats my point.
> we need to separate what is a bug (flat out wrong, like the multisearcher
> demorgan thing) from scores being slightly different by default.
> 
> and if was really the case that the multisearcher 'flat out wrong bug'
> was actually created for some theoretical equal-scores-in-all-cases
> perfection, man what a bad tradeoff that was!

I agree.

And I still tend to undelete FieldDocSortedHitQueue as it merged TopDocs and 
LUCENE-3191 will get a very small patch. :-)

That's all I wanted to say and already discussed it with Mike on IRC: 
http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/lucene-dev?date=2011-06-10#l235
All other parts on JIRA.

Uwe


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