On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Michael Ludwig <m...@as-guides.com> wrote:
> > Sorry, I don't understand. I used to think that the engine applies the > filter to the primary query result. What you're saying here sounds as if > it could also pre-filter my document collection to then apply a query to > it (which should yield the same result). What does it mean that "the > query is applicable only to the filtered set"? > Sorry for not being clear. No, both filters and queries are computed on the entire index. My comment was related to the "A filter query should probably be orthogonal to the primary query..." part. I meant that both kinds of use-cases are common. -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.