Re: Wildcard query difference

2017-07-21 Thread Erick Erickson
It's the same in both cases: enumerate all terms that start with "a" and collect them into (conceptually) a huge OR query and execute it. There's been some work lately to avoid the TooManyBooleanClauses exception, but it's still the case that every term starting with "a" has to be examined and eith

Wildcard query difference

2017-07-21 Thread Saurabh Sethi
I have a question in terms of how solr/lucene will lookup terms from postings list for the below two queries: 1. a* 2. a*gh My understanding is that for first, it will get all terms starting with 'a' and issue query on those terms. For second, it will again get all terms starting with 'a', then r