: It still feels to me that you are trying doing something unique with your : phrase queries. Unfortunately, you still haven't said what you are trying to : do in general terms, which makes it very difficult for people to help you.
Agreed. This seems very special case, but we dont' know what the case is. If there are specific phrases you know in advance that you will care about, and those phrases occur as frequetnly as the individual "words", then the best way to deal with them is to index each "phrase" as a single Term (and ignore the individual words) Speaking more generally to mike's point... http://people.apache.org/~hossman/#xyproblem Your question appears to be an "XY Problem" ... that is: you are dealing with "X", you are assuming "Y" will help you, and you are asking about "Y" without giving more details about the "X" so that we can understand the full issue. Perhaps the best solution doesn't involve "Y" at all? See Also: http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=542341 -Hoss
