Re: solution: RangeQuery with floating point numbers

2006-04-09 Thread Chris Hostetter
/int, and from there some (obscure) bitwise operations make sure they sort properly. : Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 14:53:31 +0300 : From: Nadav Har'El <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Reply-To: java-user@lucene.apache.org : To: java-user@lucene.apache.org : Subject: solution: RangeQuery with floating po

Re: solution: RangeQuery with floating point numbers

2006-04-09 Thread Paul Elschot
On Sunday 09 April 2006 13:53, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > Hi all, > ... > > By the way, it is worth repeating the warning that appears everywhere > (including Lucene In Action): while this sort of trick works, RangeQuery > is extremely inefficient (and might not even work) when the number of > diff

solution: RangeQuery with floating point numbers

2006-04-09 Thread Nadav Har'El
Hi all, As Lucene's documentation explain, RangeQuery (and ConstantScoreRangeQuery) require their key to be strings which are lexicographically (alphabetically) ordered. "Lucene in Action", section 6.3.3 ("Handling numeric field-range queries") explains what to do when you need to range search in