Some message from the future? 3203/12/01 ---- or does it come from the far past? At least no longer relevant, we left TermEnum and TermPositions classes behind after Lucene 3 :-)

Am 29.08.2025 um 02:06 schrieb Bob S:


On 3203/12/01 19:23:01 Doug Cutting wrote:
> I don't think this value actually find its way into the results.  Rather
> it causes PhraseScorer.score() to exit, as this value is always greater
> than the value of 'end' passed into that method.
>
> Doug
>
> Simon Cozens wrote:
>
> > Plucene is nearly finished, and is busy being unit-tested to death. In the > > process of doing this, we found that some of our phrase queries were returning > > more results than we expected. This is because when PhrasePositions falls off
> > the end of the iterator, it returns a sentinel value:
> >
> >     if (!tp.next()) {
> >       tp.close();                                 // close stream
> >       doc = Integer.MAX_VALUE;                    // sentinel value
> >       return;
> >     }
> >
> > However, I can't see anything else that checks for that sentinel:
> >
> >  % grep MAX_ *.java
> > DateFilter.java:  String end = DateField.MAX_DATE_STRING();
> > PhrasePositions.java:      doc = Integer.MAX_VALUE;                       // sentinel value > > TermScorer.java:      doc = Integer.MAX_VALUE;                    // set to sentinel value > > TermScorer.java:          doc = Integer.MAX_VALUE;                // set to sentinel value
> >
> > so a very big document ID is finding its way into the result set. Is
> > this the desired behaviour?
> >
>
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