Query and UTF8

2006-10-23 Thread Panayiotis Papadopoulos
Hi everyone, i have the following problem... i use UTF-8 and my solr is deployed with the aid of jetty So far i have no problem with UTF-8 in the sense than i can store anything and then it is displayed properly the problem is when i want to retrieve according to a text field which is not encod

Cant reach the server the nightlies reside on

2006-10-23 Thread Morten Fangel
Hi, I wanted to download a newer nightly (because the one I have is.. old.. and I want to play with faceted search), but each time I try to reach http://people.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/nightly/ i get a time-out Is there a mirror somewhere, or just an ETA for when that server is up and avail

Question on searcher creation limit

2006-10-23 Thread Paul Waite
Hi chaps, I currently have a lucene app. which is a daemon listening on a port for XML requests and servicing these. I'm intending to switch to using Solr in the near(ish) future, but have a question. In my daemon, for servicing incoming search requests I manage index Searchers in a cache via the

Re: Index-time Boosting

2006-10-23 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Oct 20, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Walter Underwood wrote: We have a well-developed browsing design, so I'd rather not mix facets in with that. Two other things work against using facets: most of our queries are known-item searches, and I think that facets work best when there is very broad agreement

searcher.numDocs OR

2006-10-23 Thread Mike Austin
How can I get a count like I do by using searcher.numDocs(query, docset) but with it doing an OR operation? I want the number of documents that match a OR b? Thanks, Mike

Re: Cant reach the server the nightlies reside on

2006-10-23 Thread Chris Hostetter
: want to play with faceted search), but each time I try to reach : http://people.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/nightly/ i get a time-out : Is there a mirror somewhere, or just an ETA for when that server is up and : available again? there was some pretty major infrastructure work being done over

RE: Cant reach the server the nightlies reside on

2006-10-23 Thread Steven Parkes
There was a big infrastructure move at Apache this weekend. See http://monitoring.apache.org/status/. Lots of red right now. Table at the bottom of the page indicates things are supposed to be back up sometime today. -Original Message- From: Morten Fangel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: M

Re: Query and UTF8

2006-10-23 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 10/23/06, Panayiotis Papadopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone, i have the following problem... i use UTF-8 and my solr is deployed with the aid of jetty So far i have no problem with UTF-8 in the sense than i can store anything and then it is displayed properly the problem is when i

Re: Cant reach the server the nightlies reside on

2006-10-23 Thread Yonik Seeley
It should hopefully be up by the end of today. From www.apache.org: Scheduled Downtime The Apache Software Foundation will be doing some infrastructure work that will cause some public services to be innaccessible from Saturday, October 21st through Monday, October 23rd. -Yonik On 10/23/06,

Re: searcher.numDocs OR

2006-10-23 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 10/23/06, Mike Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How can I get a count like I do by using searcher.numDocs(query, docset) but with it doing an OR operation? I want the number of documents that match a OR b? It's not clear to me what you are trying to calculate. In code, If you just want the

Question on searcher creation limit

2006-10-23 Thread Paul Waite
Hi chaps, I currently have a lucene app. which is a daemon listening on a port for XML requests and servicing these. I'm intending to switch to using Solr in the near(ish) future, but have a question. In my daemon, for servicing incoming search requests I manage index Searchers in a cache via the

Re: Question on searcher creation limit

2006-10-23 Thread Yonik Seeley
This explains some of it: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCaching So, there is normally only a single searcher handing around. When a new searcher is opened, it is opened and warmed in the "background" so there are two searchers for the duration of warming. A new searcher is only opened on an ex

Re: searcher.numDocs OR

2006-10-23 Thread Mike Austin
I want to know... If I have a maindocset with many filters already, how many more documents would I get if I added one more OR query to the maindocset. I've been using numDocs to get the count if I wanted to narrow my maindocset down because numDocs says that it must be in the maindocset AND in t

Re: Question on searcher creation limit

2006-10-23 Thread Paul Waite
Yonik Seeley wrote: > This explains some of it: > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCaching > > So, there is normally only a single searcher handing around. > When a new searcher is opened, it is opened and warmed in the > "background" so there are two searchers for the duration of warming. > > A n

Re: Question on searcher creation limit

2006-10-23 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 10/23/06, Paul Waite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: However if I understand the above properly, we should implement a strategy which at least limits the commit frequency, to prevent the scenario you describe in the last para above. Right. If a new news item comes in, you could do a commit immed

Re: Question on searcher creation limit

2006-10-23 Thread Paul Waite
Yonik Seeley wrote: > On 10/23/06, Paul Waite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However if I understand the above properly, we should implement a strategy > > which at least limits the commit frequency, to prevent the scenario you > > describe in the last para above. > > Right. If a new news item c

Re: Index-time Boosting

2006-10-23 Thread Chris Hostetter
: Is fq documented anywhere??? It's very useful for speeding up complex i just added it to CommonQueryParameters -Hoss

Re: Index-time Boosting

2006-10-23 Thread Chris Hostetter
: We'll start with "OR", because I think an all-terms default is a really : bad idea. If someone is searches for "X-Men 3: The Final Battle", we : need to show them "X-Men 3: The Last Stand". BooleanQuery.setMinimumNumberShouldMatch can help reduce the cruft with this approach .. the dismax handl

Juggling relevance rankings

2006-10-23 Thread Walter Lewis
If I've missed this in the documentation just point me in the right direction, otherwise ... I'm interested in ways of tweaking result sets based on criteria external to the search itself. For example: user searches for "foo AND bar" in a general "text" search search returns 100 records

Re: Question on searcher creation limit

2006-10-23 Thread Paul Waite
Yonik Seeley wrote: > On 10/23/06, Paul Waite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However if I understand the above properly, we should implement a > > strategy which at least limits the commit frequency, to prevent the > > scenario you describe in the last para above. > Right. If a new news item c

Re: Juggling relevance rankings

2006-10-23 Thread Mike Klaas
On 10/23/06, Walter Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I've missed this in the documentation just point me in the right direction, otherwise ... Tweaking relevance is a lucene question. Solr adds almost nothing to this--the various documents pertaining to lucene are most relevant. Note that

Re: Question on searcher creation limit

2006-10-23 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 10/23/06, Paul Waite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrConfigXml In the UpdateHandler section I see: 1 3600 0 So the hard part is already done - the parameters are named! ;-) Heh. I forgot that stuff was there. F