If that's the way to go, we should do it by default so the user doesn't have to.

Unless the scores between two types of queries are compatible, It's a
bad idea to transparently switch between them since it will cause
relevancy to unpredictably change in the future (triggered by either a
query changing slightly, or the index changing slightly).

-Yonik
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On 11/16/05, Paul Elschot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why not leave that decision to the program using the query?
> Something like this:
> - catch the TooManyClauses exception,
> -  adapt (the offending parts of) the query to make these use
>    a FieldNormQuery,
> - retry with a warning to the provider of the query that
>   the term frequencies have been ignored.
>
> The only disadvantage of this is that the term expansion
> during rewrite has to be redone.
> Also, when enough terms are involved, they might still cause
> a memory problem because they are all needed at the same
> time.
>
> Regards,
> Paul Elschot

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