: Agreed.  I'm not sure why anyone would want docFreq that included
: terms from documents that had been deleted though, so there should at
: least be a warning in the documentation that says this particular
: information is best done on an optimized index.
:
: I'm curious what use case is envisioned for docFreqs that aren't
: "faceted" in that they aren't constrained by some query to limit the
: results.  I certainly can see it being cool to navigate all the terms
: of a field in a general sense of transparency, but narrowing down the
: terms only from a particular sub-set of documents is what my
: application needs.

right .. i think the concept is more general visibility into the
underlying index for the purpose of generating statistic.  the docFreqs
give you a good sampling of how common a term is, even if it's not 100%
exact because of deletions.



-Hoss

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