Well the originally architecture is out of my hands , but when someone
sends in a query like that, if the range is a large number , my system
basically shuts down and the cpu spikes with a large increase in
memory usage. The queries are for strings. The query itself was an
accident but I want to be able to prevent an accident from bringing
down the index.
> On Apr 10, 2016, at 12:34 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> OK, why is this a problem? This smells like an XY problem,
> you want to take some specific action, but it's not at all
> clear what the problem is. There might be other ways
> of doing this.
>
> If you're allowing regexes on numeric fields, using real
> number fields (trie) and using range queries is a much
> better way to go.
>
> Best,
> Erick
>
>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Michael Harkins <mp...@case.edu> wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I am using lucene and solr version 4.2, and was wondering what would
>> be the best way to not allow regex queries with very large numbers.
>> Something like blah{1234567} or blah{1234, 123445678}
