If your indexed field is not used to further filtering out the doc nor further scoring, you should use some sort of priority queueing mechanism to gather the top N documents. You can then call reader.document() on those docs if necc.
-John On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Stephane Nicoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From the FAQ: > > "Don't iterate over more hits than needed. > Iterating over all hits is slow for two reasons. Firstly, the search() > method that returns a Hits object re-executes the search internally > when you need more than 100 hits. Solution: use the search method that > takes a HitCollector instead." > > I had a look to HitCollector but it returns the documentId and the > javadoc recommends not fetching the original query there. > > I have to return *one* indexed field from the query result and > currently I am iterating on all results and it's slow. Can you explain > a bit more how I could improve this? > > Thanks, > Stéphane > > > -- > Large Systems Suck: This rule is 100% transitive. If you build one, > you suck" -- S.Yegge > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
