On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Paul Taylor <paul_t...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> In a music database have an index of releases and a separate indexes of > artists, usually the user just searches artists or releases. But sometimes > they want to search all and interleave the results from the two indexes, but > its not sensible for me to interleave them based on their score at the > moment. > I'm confused if you are talking about comparing two unrelated searches, or if you are asking about a "federated search" of the same query across 2 indexes (treat them as one collection)? If its the latter, you can use a MultiReader if the indexes are on the same box, or if they are not, you can implement a distributed statistics interchange by subclassing IndexSearcher's termStatistics() and collectionStatistics() methods (e.g. distributed IDF). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
