First question is whether you want to. There are ways to stop the search, but how do you know that the last document of your 200K isn't the most relevant? There's no way I know to determine that without examining all the docs.
Best Erick On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:20 AM, John <fatmanc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > In my search application, I sometimes get more than 200k matches for a > specific query. > Although I only present the first 20, I still run over the entire 200k > because I use my own Similarity function. > > Is there a way to make this search smarter? I thought limiting the total > possible matches to 50-100k, but couldn't find how to set it up in Solr. Any > ideas? > > Is there anything else I can do? > > Thanks, > John >
