On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Jan Høydahl / Cominvent <jan....@cominvent.com> wrote: > Hi, > > A fuzzy query foo~ defaults to a similarity of 0.5, i.e. equal to foo~0.5 >
just as an FYI, this isn't true in trunk (4.0) any more. the defaults are changed so that it never enumerates the entire dictionary (slow) like before, see: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2667 so, the default is now foo~2 (2 edit distances).