On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:36:53PM +0200, Tom Castle wrote: > Hi, I've got a Ferret index which I'm using through ActsAsFerret on a > database with about 300,000 records. Searches on the index (for example > wildcard - "A*") seem to be truncated at 512 results. This is a problem > as I also pass conditions to ActiveRecord which filter this resultset > down, often to zero results when in fact the database contains many > records which matched the conditions but just happened to be outside the > 512 Ferret return. > > I thought the solution would be setting max terms to a higher value, > with something like - Ferret::Search::MultiTermQuery.default_max_terms = > 5000, however this seems to have no effect. Is there somewhere this > value is overridden or could there be some other setting which is > restricting the number of results returned by Ferret?
Yes, most probably it's the boolean query's max_clauses option which defaults to 512. If you're using the QueryParser, you may pass it :max_clauses => 5000 option to globally raise this for all kinds of queries. There should also be a max_clauses class method in BooleanQuery. Cheers, Jens -- Jens Krämer Finkenlust 14, 06449 Aschersleben, Germany VAT Id DE251962952 http://www.jkraemer.net/ - Blog http://www.omdb.org/ - The new free film database _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
