Hi Arthur, Apache Lucene (Java implemenation) doesn't allow wildcard symbols at the beginning of pattern and limits number of matched terms by 1024. It limits search time.
I am not sure, what is preferable, to set hard limitations or give an API to make it confugurable... With best regards, Alexander Veremyev. > -----Original Message----- > From: arthur-8 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 12:22 AM > To: fw-general@lists.zend.com > Subject: [fw-general] Zend_Search_Lucene: Manging large > wildcard queries > > > First off, a big thanks to Alexander for implementing > Wildcard queries in svn. > > We're indexing and tokenizing quite a large amount of data > (mostly plaintext from .txt files with some Stopwords > removed). Doing a wildcard query often takes very long to > finish and mostly PHP just time-outs. > > Currently we're doing a non-wildcard search when the search > string contains more than two words (which is not very > effective, but mostly reduces the time-outs). > > My question would be if any of you know an effective way to > manage Wildcard queries on many tokenized words? > > Thanks. > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Zend_Search_Lucene%3A-Manging-large-wild > card-queries-tf4214305s16154.html#a11989387 > Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
