That was a quick response Steve! Sounds all great! Much appreciated. Definitely think specifying a bit filter is something that many people many find useful.
I'll have a look at Solr-2052 too. Thanks again, Mike > Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:57:54 -0500 > Subject: Re: Lower level filtering > From: eelstretch...@gmail.com > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Michael Owen <michaelowe...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > I'm currently using Solr and I've got a question about filtering on a lower > > level than filter queries. > > We want to be able to restrict the documents that can possibly be returned > > to a users query. From another system we'll get a list of document unique > > ids for the user which is all the documents that they can possibly see > > (i.e. a base index list as such). The criteria for what document ids get > > returned is going to be quite flexible. As the number of ids can be up to > > index size - 1 (i.e. thousands) using a filter query doesn't seem right for > > entering a filter query which is so large. > > Can something be done at a lower level - perhaps at a Lucene level - as I > > understand Lucene starts from a bitset of possible documents it can return > > - could we AND this with a filter bitset returned from the other system? > > Would this be a good way forward? > > And then how would you do this in Solr with still keeping Solr's extra > > functionality it brings over Lucene. A new SearchHandler? > > I actually submitted a patch a while ago in Solr-2052 that allows you > to specify a bit filter and a filter query (you could specify either, > but not both.) > > Otis pointed out that the patch can't be applied against the current > source, so I need to go back and make it work with the current source > (new job = no time). I'll see if I can find the time this weekend to > do this. > > Steve > -- > Stephen Green > http://thesearchguy.wordpress.com
