: Incidentally, I'm getting BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses when I search on : "james", but I don't when I search on "James". Surely the number of clauses : isn't dependent on the number of hits?!
not the numebr of hits -- just hte number of terms in your index that start with the prefix. : However, I know that "fred" is relatively uncommon in my index and "neil" is : relatively common and yet "fred" is getting the BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses : and "neil" isn't. Does that make sense? : : Should the actual term used in a PrefixQuery effect the number of clauses? yes .. the Term used in the PrefixQUery is just a convinient holder for a fieldname and a term value prefix -- what matters is how many terms in that field start with that prefix. if "james*" causes a problem, but "James*" doesn't then it sounds like your indexing analyzer is case sensative and you have a lot more lowercase values starting with james then upercase values starting with James .. if "fred*" causes a problem but "neil*" doesn't then you probably have a lot more terms that start with "fred" then you do that start with "neil" -- it doesn't matter if "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is the value more documents then the total number of docs that contain any value starting with "fred", what matters is how many unique values there are starting with "fred" -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
