Hi Erick,
First of all, thanks for your posts, I really appreciate this!
1) Yes, we have tested alternative stemmers, but I admit that a definite
decission has not been made yet. Anyway, we definately do not want to create
a stemmed index because of storage issues and we definately want to be able
to allow the end-user to turn it on and off. So choosing a different stemmer
does not solve my problem of wanting to switch between stemming/non-stemming
without additional indexes.
2) Rant granted :) And I definately agree with you. It is always a challenge
to find a balance between what a customer wants and how far you really want
to go to in achieving a solution (that does not conflict too much with the
maintainability of the system).
But, I do think that the requirements are not that outragious. It seems to
me reasonable that once you have created an index it would be nice to be
able to use that index in different ways. After all, the only thing I want
is apply different query analyzers (mind you, I am not formatting the
tokens, what could possibly result in index/query token conflicts, I am
merely expanding query possibilities here by adding synonyms, the rest stays
the same).
Another good example could be that you want to index a field that contains
text in different languages. Would it not be nice then to be able to define
optimized query analyzers on that field, one for each language? You could
then access them using the q parameter: q=<field>:<language>:<search term>,
where <language> is the name of the query analyzer to use. It seems to me to
be a nice feature. Could be a big change though, because I assume that at
the moment the analyzers have hard-coded names ("index" and "query").
3) Yep, I was also looking into this (because other options seemed to be
vaporizing). Don't know if I'm going to use suffixes or maybe add a trigger
word like @stem@. Depends on what the scope of the called method is. I
prefer the trigger word @stem@ variant because I can then just insert that
without needing to parse the query string to find out what the actual seach
words are that I need to suffix.
Cheers and again, thanks for helping me on this,
Victor
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