RE: Returned number of result rows as a function of maxScore or numFound.

2016-06-09 Thread Prasanna Josium
age- From: Erick Erickson [mailto:erickerick...@gmail.com] Sent: 09 June 2016 22:43 To: solr-user Subject: Re: Returned number of result rows as a function of maxScore or numFound. Why do this at all? I have a hard time understanding what benefit this is to the _user_. And even returning 5

Re: Returned number of result rows as a function of maxScore or numFound.

2016-06-09 Thread Erick Erickson
Why do this at all? I have a hard time understanding what benefit this is to the _user_. And even returning 5% is risky. I mean what happens for a query of *:*? For a corpus of 100M docs that's still 5M documents which is would hurt. Sure, you say, well I'll cap it at XXX docs. The principle stil

Re: Returned number of result rows as a function of maxScore or numFound.

2016-06-08 Thread Binoy Dalal
I don't think you can do such a thing ootb with solr but this is pretty easy to achieve using a custom search component. Just write some custom code which will limit your resultset and plug it into your request handler as the last component. On Thu, 9 Jun 2016, 08:53 Prasanna Josium, wrote: > H

Returned number of result rows as a function of maxScore or numFound.

2016-06-08 Thread Prasanna Josium
Hi, I use a dse stack with has solr4.10. I want to control the number of rows from result set as a percent of the max hit 'numFound' or 'maxScore' for a query. e.g., 1) for a query 'foo', if I get 100 hits and if I want to get the top 5% percent (say rows=5%). Then I get only 5 rows. for a quer