Re: A little onfusion with maxPosAsterisk

2012-04-06 Thread neosky
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Re: A little onfusion with maxPosAsterisk

2012-04-06 Thread Dmitry Kan
Let's first figure out, why reversing a token is helpful for doing leading wildcard searches. I'll assume you refer to ReversedWildcardFilterFactory. If you have the query *foo, using a straightforward approach, you would need to scan through the entire dictionary of terms (which can be billions)