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Yonik Seeley commented on LUCENE-7996: -------------------------------------- bq. If we don't require non-negative scores, then we would need some way for scorers to tell whether they may produce negative scores I assumed we already had logic to disable the optimizations for certain scorers. For example, isn't it true that if I embed an arbitrary function query today (even one with all positive scores), these optimizations are already disabled? > Should we require positive scores? > ---------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-7996 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7996 > Project: Lucene - Core > Issue Type: Wish > Reporter: Adrien Grand > Priority: Minor > Fix For: master (8.0) > > Attachments: LUCENE-7996.patch, LUCENE-7996.patch, LUCENE-7996.patch > > > Having worked on MAXSCORE recently, things would be simpler if we required > that scores are positive. Practically, this would mean > - forbidding/fixing similarities that may produce negative scores (we have > some of them) > - forbidding things like negative boosts > So I'd be curious to have opinions whether this would be a sane requirement > or whether we need to be able to cope with negative scores eg. because some > similarities that we want to support produce negative scores by design. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org